The Leader award grantee for dot-ORG is the Academy for Educational Development (AED).
The manager of dot-ORG at USAID is Jeff Cochrane, jcochrane@usaid.gov.
Under the dot-ORG cooperative agreement, AED and its partners provide assistance in the following areas:
- incorporate ICT in their programs in democracy and government, environment, health, education, and economic growth;
- develop systems of sustainable community ICT access; e.g., telecenters and community learning centers;
- network USAID partners, such as NGOs;
- support network entrepreneurs, especially women;
- use ICT systems for crisis intervention, distance training, environmental surveillance, and telemedicine; and
- provide solutions for areas off the national power grid and wireless access.
The dot-ORG Leader award grantee is also responsible for the DOT-COM Synthesis and Dissemination Secretariat. The Secretariat coordinates and assesses the activities of three DOT-COM Leader awards, prepares strategy and discussion papers, and maintains an easily accessible web site and interactive e-mail exchange among the Leader awardees and partners.
The four core partners of dot-ORG are:
- AED, the lead partner and a non-profit, has extensive experience in applying technology to meet critical developmental challenges; ranging from interactive radio, television and satellites to computer-based learning, education management information systems and the Internet. With a staff of 800 and a budget of $140 million, AED conducts education, health, environment, gender, and youth developmental activities both in the developing world and in the United States. The dot-ORG project director is Dennis Foote.
- Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), like AED, is a non-profit experienced in managing large international assistance projects that provide technology services in a range of development fields, including education, training, health, economic growth, and environment. EDC's areas of technical competence include: IT strategy, distance education/training, electronic networking strategies, ICT for small/medium business development, evaluation studies of ICT use.
- Research Triangle Institute (RTI), operating as a non-profit corporation, has more than 17 years experience in designing and implementing ICT projects and systems to strengthen national and local governments, improve health systems, open communications between citizens and their leaders and create new economic opportunities for entrepreneurs.
- Winrock International is a non-profit founded in 1985. Winrock conducts programs in agriculture, forestry, natural resource management, leadership development, and clean energy, and has extensive experience using ICT to increase education and training opportunities for girls and women across sub-Saharan Africa.
The dot-ORG Leader award grantee can also draw on 62 resource organizations: sixteen are for-profits, eleven are universities, thirty are non-profits, and five are foundations.
The core private sector resource partners are:
- AFRICON
- Agland Investment Services
- Avaya
- CNET
- Computer Frontiers International (CFI)
- Development InfoStructure
- FutureWorks (2001) Inc.
- IBM Corporation
- Intel Corporation
- Lyman Brothers
- Morocco Trade and Development Services (MTDS)
- Networked Intelligence for Development
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers
- Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC)
- SRI International
- Sun Microsystems
- Sylvan Learning
- Voxiva
The core university resource partners are:
- Bowie State
- Colorado State
- Florida State
- Howard University College of Medicine
- Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
- MIT Media Laboratory
- Michigan State University
- University of Illinois
- Kenan Institute, University of North Carolina
- International Literacy Institute (ILI), University of Pennsylvania
- Global Information Networks in Education (GINIE), University of Pittsburgh
The core non-profit resource partners are:
- American International Health Association
- Association for Progressive Communications
- ARD, Inc.
- Bellanet, International Development Research Council (IDRC)
- geekcorps
- Health Management Resources, Inc.
- International Educational and Resource Network (I*EARN)
- International City/County Management Association (ICMA)
- Institute for Public Private Partnerships
- International Development Professionals (IDP)
- International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
- Knowledge Enterprises
- Net Assessment
- Net Corps Americas, Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD)
- NIIT
- Organization for Educational Resources and Technological Training (ORT) International
- PACT
- Pacific Resources for Education & Learning (PREL)
- PEOPLink
- REDA International, Inc.
- SATELLIFE
- ThinkQuest, Inc., Advanced Network Systems
- USASA International, Ltd.
- U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI)
- Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)
- World Resources Institute
- World Links
- Worldwise Services, Inc.
The core foundation resource partners are:
- Asia Foundation
- Greenstar Foundation
- InfoChange Foundation
- Omar Dengo Foundation
- WorldSpace Foundation
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