DOT-COMments eNewsletter: ICT Capacity Building
Issue 8: Fall 2004
Title:Project Results and Lessons - ICT and Employability Training for Poor Brazilian Youth Issue:Fall 2004, Issue 8 DOT:dot-ORG Summary:Programa para o Futuro's innovative curriculum, integrating information and communication technology (ICT) and employability training has taught 50 disadvantaged Brazilian youths the workplace readiness and computer skills they needed to succeed in the technologically driven workplace of the 21st century.
Title:Volunteers Advance Management Skills of Vietnamese Software Companies Issue:Fall 2004, Issue 8 DOT:dot-GOV Summary:Thirteen Vietnamese software companies located in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi benefited from intensive, hands-on training provided by four Geek Corps volunteers (www.geekcorps.org) over the period of April-September 2004. This focused technical assistance has been extended to the wider ICT sector in Vietnam.
Core funding for the DOT-COM Alliance is provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture & Trade, Office of Energy and Information Technology (EGAT/EIT/IT), Office of Human Capacity Development: Basic Education Team (EGAT/HCD), and Office of Women in Development (EGAT/WID), under the terms of Award numbers: GDG-A-00-01-00009-00, dot-GOV; GDG-A-00-01-00014-00, dot-ORG; GDG-A-00-01-00011-00, dot-EDU.
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