Technology

The iMulai 4.0 competition sponsored by USAID and Microsoft Indonesia, recognized 10 entrepreneurs for their innovations in business products and services.  The competition, in its fourth year, provides incentives for high-tech startups to create new software products and services that improve the way entrepreneurs do business. 

BAHIA, Brazil—Is it a tool to catch fish or a nickname for the Internet? In this small fishing community, the answer is decidedly both.

In Bahia, the word “net” refers to a combination of digital technologies that is improving the local fishing industry and making life better for about 200 families in Santa Cruz Cabrália—a municipality best known as the place where the explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral landed in the 16th century.

Through partners of USAID’s Limited Excess Property Program, excess computer equipment is used to provide training to local students in both El Salvador and Nicaragua. Under the LEPP program, private voluntary organizations, such as Food for the Poor, receive excess government property for use in their overseas programs. This property serves to build the capacity and the speed and efficiency of local in-country partners, including schools, hospitals and training facilities.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Cisco and World Learning today announced a new collaboration to promote local entrepreneurs, workforce development and economic growth in developing countries. The collaboration will work through the Cisco Entrepreneur Institute and Cisco Networking Academy-programs that provide entrepreneurship and information and communications technology (ICT) education, mentoring networks, and technology resources-to help individuals develop and manage successful businesses.