Bolivia

The project has reduced the digital breach that exists in the country qualifying in the use of the computer, internet ( blogs, social nets, web pages, virtual communities) of 1500 people.

2000 people trained on topics about: 1) human, sexual and reproductive, indigenous rights, 2) democracy and citizenship, 3) negotiation and social control.

Young men and women and adults have a better capacity of participation in the society and the state.

Young men and women are qualified to be the promoters in ̈formation of democracy ̈, they will reproduce their knowledge and promote to other young people in their communities.

At least 50 university students have been trained on topics of local development, social control and human rights in coordination with the universities of El Alto, La Paz , Sucre and Santa Cruz.

At least 50 indigenous representatives have been trained on topics about indigenous rights.

The main goal of the project is to provide UMSA with a modern ICT infrastructure to strengthen its research capacity and support UMSA´s important role for the whole country development.

There are 4 main activities 

1. Network Infrastructure. The aim is to build the large and complex network infrastructure UMSA requires.
2. Information Systems. The aim is to build the main information system UMSA organization requires. This includes web-portal, UMSA Academic Information System and UMSA financial Information System.
3. Library System strengthening. The aim is to update UMSA's library-system procedure and service. The key activity is to move the whole manual library catalog to an electronic format.
4. Human Resource Training. The goal is to create the know-how necessary to implement, maintain and utilizethe new technical solution.