Skills

Training of Trainers
Implementation of Large Scale Deployment
Policy Design
Public-Private Partnership

Organizational Capacity

The ForeignAID.com team has over fifty years of collective experience in ICT-based international development. Our team members were selected by Hewlett Packard’s $1 million Digital Villages Initiative to build ten ICT centers in schools and teachers colleges throughout Ghana. Secondly, our team members have led Cisco’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs) Initiative to establish over 60 Cisco Networking Academies in eligible African universities and colleges. Third, our team members have partnered with 3Com, Sovereign Bank, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, and the CEO of McKinsey and Company to successfully build ICT centers in Ecuador, Mali, and in three locations in India. Finally, our team members have led the building of computer labs in over 20 schools in New York City, West Philadelphia, and Washington D.C.

Statement of Need

Problem 1: AIDS Orphans and Disadvantaged Youth

All ForeignAID.com ICT projects incorporate local youth in addition to international ICT experts. The hands-on ICT skills provided by ForeignAID.com lead to better wage- and self-employment opportunities.

There are some one billion youth on the planet, and around 85% reside in developing countries. One of the greatest challenges facing the world is to generate productive work opportunities for young people, ages 15-29, who have rising expectations for employment opportunities and lifestyles comparable to those found in industrial economies. Without such opportunities, thwarted expectations can become the breeding ground for global discontent. A targeted and timely intervention for youth employment is urgently required to resolve a rapidly building global crisis.[1]

Problem 2: The Growing Digital Divide

“There is no better tool for Africa’s great leap forward than IT.”
                        – President Wade of Senegal, Patron of the NEPAD e-Africa Commission

ForeignAID.com recognizes the importance of ICT in youth employment and resolves to increase the access of disadvantaged youth and AIDS orphans to education-enhancing information communications technology.

The global digital divide is further separating the haves from the have-nots at a time when computer literacy is vital to employment in most sectors. According to Sammy Buruchara, Chairman of the Telecommunication Service Providers Association in Kenya, “the majority of students that graduate are computer illiterate. With the current economy requiring a computer literate workforce, there is a great need for IT training in our schools and Universities. There is a need for a consistent policy on Computer Education that would ensure that students who leave secondary [school] and University have sufficient computer knowledge to enter the labor market… They hardly have any computers and have no provision of this service even after the introduction of computer syllabus in schools…Therefore there is a need for the government to recognize the vital relationship between a favorable IT environment and the education of the many Kenyan children and the future participation in a digital global village.”

ForeignAID.com's unique values and services enable it to address these two issues simultaneously by training disadvantaged youth in highly employable IT skills and providing world-class ICT services across the globe.