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Anti-Trafficking: IATP implemented a joint project with the USAID-funded and Winrock-implemented New Perspectives for Women project in Moldova to provide technology-related skills to protect young women from trafficking and to help them find reputable work online. Education: In a joint partnership with the USAIDfunded Junior Achievement project, IATP trained teachers in Kyrgyzstan to use the internet to participate in the project’s programming. JA’s coordinator described IATP’s assistance as instrumental to their success. For USAID’s PEAKS project, IATP created a website to host curriculum development materials for the project. Media: IATP worked with Internews in Tajikistan to train regional radio broadcast journalists to use the internet to conduct research for stories and to gain access to professional resources. Seventeen journalists and IT specialists created a portal for social networking following training on Web 2.0 technologies led by Latvian trainers Maksim and Aya Bereza from April 22 to 25 at the IATP center in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Web 2.0 describes the emerging use of the internet as a platform for two-way communication, as seen in the recent proliferation of online communities, user-created software, wikis, blogs, and content-sharing resources. 42
VIII. CONCLUSIONS A.Summary of Findings IATP successfully fulfilled the objectives set forth its workplans. Target outcomes were not just met but exceeded. Based on an analysis of statistics, survey data, and focus groups with IATP users and non-users, IREX has empowered thousands of citizens to use the internet to support democratic reform; has networked hundreds with civil society representatives at the local, regional, and international levels; and has introduced vanguard technologies and solutions to dozens of local development initiatives, including other USAID-funded projects. Since USAID funding began in 2007, nearly 85,000 individuals have used IATP centers over 670,000 times. More than 44,000 have participated in one of the 8,000 IATP training sessions over the last two years. A total of 83 centers that are or were at one point administered by IATP are spread across ten Eurasian countries, continuing to offer free technical training and/ or internet service to communities where such access is out of reach for many reasons. Through strategic outreach, IATP not only successfully targeted key actors in the democratic reform process (i.e. representatives of NGOs, local governments, media, small businesses, libraries, etc.), but IREX also had a great impact on the next generation of ICT users hungry for the kind of quality ICT training and internet access still unavailable in most Eurasian educational institutions. When asked, IATP users are clear that IATP centers are not just a free version of an internet café. Time and again in surveys and focus group discussions, users distinguished IATP centers in several ways. First, IATP is unique in offering free training. But it was not just that the training was free, but that it was of high quality and matched to their personal and professional needs. Some IATP users reported having participated in ICT training elsewhere (including a minority at free locations like schools or universities), but almost all surveyed said the training at IATP centers made otherwise complex concepts easy to understand and taught users very practical ways to apply them to their personal 43
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