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Digital Opportunity Trust and the Mastercard Foundation expand the impact of the Going Beyond project with nine youth-serving organizations in Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Côte d’Ivoire
Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) and the Mastercard Foundation are proud to announce nine new partner organizations for the project, “Going Beyond – Partnering for a Youth-Led Future.” These nine youth-led and youth-serving partner organizations join the six named in the first year of the project, bringing the total number of partners to 15. The […]
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Digital Skills for Business to Bridge the Gender Digital Divide
Known as the “land of a thousand hills”, Rwanda is one of the continent’s smallest nations, and boasts a youthful population – the median age in Rwanda is 20. Rwanda is asserting itself as a major information and technology hub, as part of the country’s ambitious plan to become an industrial and technological service centre […]
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DOT at CSW67: Creating Enabling Environments for Young Women
March 6, 2023 Progress towards gender equality is looking bleak – in recent years, the number of employed women globally has declined, over 400 million women and girls continue to live in extreme poverty, and food insecurity levels are 10% higher for women. Young women and girls also continue to face limited access to digital […]
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Progress Loading – On the way to 4 Million Lives by 2025
February 9, 2023 Our ways of living, working, and learning are deeply ingrained with technology, and many have been forced into digital transformation. Yet, the digital economy’s potential is not equally distributed. Digital literacy, usability, affordability, and accessibility are among the many barriers preventing dignified participation in the global economy. In 2022, DOT announced a […]
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Evaluation Brief: Entrepreneurship and Business Growth Ethiopia
In 2022, DOT celebrated the end of the Entrepreneurship and Business Growth (EBG) project, our largest project operation for a single county. Supported by the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada, the Entrepreneurship and Business Growth project was implemented by DOT Ethiopia and focused on activating the potential of Ethiopia’s large and untapped youth […]
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Support #DOTYouth To Thrive in An Inclusive Digital Economy
For 20 years, DOT has been working towards a vision where all underserved and disadvantaged young women and men realize their potential in an inclusive digital economy. An early adopter of ICT for Development as an international development construct, DOT has been equipping young women and men with the skills and networks to leverage technology […]
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DOT Headlines Launch Event for Univeristy of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management 7th Annual MBA Diversity and Inclusion Case Challenge
Attended by MBA students from across Canada, Elizabeth Mengesha and Shila Ukumbini Salim headlined the launch event to kick off Telfer’s 2022/2023 MBA Diversity and Inclusion Case Challenge on November 19th. The theme this year is climate action. Speaking in the plenary session, Elizabeth, the Deputy Director of Operations at DOT who oversees DOT’s global […]
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