STORY FROM THE FIELD
Helping Vietnamese Farmers
The award-winning Vietnam Development Gateway (VnDG) is partnering with the country’s post office network and a team of agricultural specialists to provide an interactive Web portal for farmers and farm communities. Volunteer farmers access the site at more than 2,500 Internet stations located in postal centers. Assisted by trained staff, they take technical and marketing, and best practice information back to their villages.
Effective development in any country, city or village requires local participation and local skills development. The Development Gateway Foundation has helped establish a network pf nearly 50 Country Gateways—locally owned entities that deliver Web-related services for local and national development needs.
Development Gateway Foundation provided seed funding to most of them, as well as software technology to those that needed it. We continue to provide strategic and technical assistance as they grow, prosper and become financially independent.
Please click here to make a donation to support the work of the Development Gateway Foundation.
Development Gateway Foundation provided seed funding to most of them, as well as software technology to those that needed it. We continue to provide strategic and technical assistance as they grow, prosper and become financially independent.
Common Goals
Each Country Gateway organization is different but they all share Development Gateway Foundation’s mission, vision and partnership approach. Through their Web sites and other initiatives, they aim to:- Promote knowledge-sharing and transparency in government, business and all aspects of development
- Support enterprise, civil society and social entrepreneurship
- Strengthen local and national capacity in the application of information and communications technologies (ICT) for effective development.
Serving Local Needs
Country Gateways provide a growing range of Web-based services for e-government, small enterprise support, e-learning, e-health, online community-building and more. Increasingly, they are providing offline services as well, such as consulting, Web site design, hosting and implementation, application service provision, project management and e-procurement activities.
Please click here to make a donation to support the work of the Development Gateway Foundation.