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Project:
Digital Opportunity Initiative

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Title: Digital Opportunity Initiative
Location: Global
Status: In Progress
Timeline: Ongoing
Categories: Technology

Description:
The Digital Opportunity Initiative (DOI), a public private partnership of Accenture, the Markle Foundation and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), was launched at the G-8 Okinawa Summit in 2000, with the aim of identifying the roles that information and communication technologies (ICT) can play in fostering sustainable economic development and enhancing social equity.

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Jul 28th, 2006 - 20:53:42 | Ned Hamson
The Mac Guatemala Project -- Margaret Molinari, the Peace Corps person who is handling all the on-the-gournd aspects of getting 400 Macintosh computers into 15 schools in Guatemala for students and... (read more)

Jul 28th, 2006 - 20:46:39 | Ned Hamson
Not the biggest news but I do have a student who is researching and writing a paper on a Laptop for Every Child. It's related to the MIT project to create an under $100 wind up, wilress laptop... (read more)

Dec 4th, 2002 - 11:22:56 | Maja Andjelkovic
New York, July 16, 2001 - The Digital Opportunity Initiative -- a collaboration between Accenture, the Markle Foundation and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) -- today released a... (read more)

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Who Is Involved?  Who Is Involved?
Individuals:
Leader ()
Leader ()
- osazuwa12 (United Kingdom)
- Ming Kun (Singapore)
- Ned Hamson (United States)
- chima (Nigeria)
- PATRICIO JOSE TRUJILLO MANRIQUEZ (Chile)

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Documents  Documents