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Organization

Ofok NGO

Website of the Organization

http://ohnet.ofokngo.org

What is your role in this organization?:

Community Programs Coordinator

Your email address

motaz.elewa@ofoksystems.com

Tipo de organizacion/sector

Civil Society

What does your organization do? (100 Words Max.)

Ofok's mission is to help communities empower themselves, and to enable individuals especially find employment and develop their careers. Ofok is a not-for-profit NGO, working on a self sustainable model and taking full advantage of the opportunities presented by the development initiatives taking place worldwide.
Ofok is launching its initiatives toward narrowing the knowledge gap between developed and developing worlds through immunizing youth with the ICTs to be able to connect global experiences with local entrepreneurship to create customized solutions for communities using available resources.

Competences Areas

e-Learning, Digital Inclusion, Open Source Software, Technological Volunteering

Are you involved in a project and which one? (100 Words Max.)

ICT4All is an innovative project that is budding from Ofok Human Development Initiative (OHDI) that is intended to contribute to the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Bringing IT literacy to as many people as possible; through offering basic IT courses supported by global IT pillars such as Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems in the form of completely free scholarships targeting universities undergraduates where students will be taught by an instructor, gain access to the on-line curriculum and Educational Guide for free. Additionally, there will be a discount for Certifying International Exams.
ICT4All project is looking forward to serve 100.000 students, delivering IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software through the Cisco Networking Academy Program and Open Solaris Operating System 10 Essentials through the Sun Academic Initiative. All certificates will be internationally recognized and issued directly from Cisco and Sun.

Why are you interested in the Digital World Forum ? (100 Words Max.)

narrowing the knowledge gap

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