In a context of high unemployment and marked gender inequality, online education for women becomes a niche with great potential in Haiti. Returns to education are particularly high in ICT-intensive jobs and IT outsourcing offers concrete opportunities for remote employment, providing alternatives for economic diversification and job creation that are particularly relevant for youth and women. The problem faced in many developing countries, such as Haiti, is that traditional models, architectures and platforms for online learning do not lend themselves well to their context as typical assumptions about the availability of adequate civil and digital infrastructure, and the evolution of social and cul-tural habits towards normative behaviors in the digital economy are rigorously challenged. Therefore, it becomes important to develop platforms suited to their context. This has motivated the research ques-tion that this paper seeks to address, namely “What is the appropriate Architecture that supports learn-ing strategies for delivering scalable digital skills training in a resource constrained environment?”
This research paper proposes an architecture that was developed specifically for blended learning in resource constrained environments and describes how a prototype for this was designed, built and de-ployed in Haiti.

TellYourMPjm is a pilot initiative in participatory budgeting that seeks to make the local budgeting consultations—and public consultations in general—more accessible for everyone, by using ICT to lower access barriers, broaden the base of participation and foster a more informed, engaged and active citizen participation

This Curriculum and attendant courses described in this document are informed by Research conducted under the project - Ayitic Goes Global - that seeks to empower young women in Haiti with the digital skills to qualify them for online jobs. The Curriculum design adopts a competency-based approach to course development and delivery and adapts the DigComp II Digital Literacy competency framework for this purpose.

This final report outlines an open data and interactive community mapping strategic initiative in community tourism. An Outcome Mapping Methodology was utilized to assess potential “theories of change” by the application of Open Data to Interactive Community Mapping and the building of a geoData ecosystem. This initiative was a pilot project implemented in the August Town community, Kingston, Jamaica.
Dr. Michelle McLeod
2nd February 2017