Summary Learning Report 2009 - Bolivia Country Programme (English)

Would it be it possible to help to reduce poverty levels in Bolivia through appropriate and equitable use of ICT? The answer is yes. New technologies represent an important opportunity for the country's development, as demonstrated by the experiences of TiCBolivia National program, which has been supported mostly by IICD.

The Bolivia Country Programme, TiCBolivia, promotes the use of ICT for maily peasants, teachers, students, indigenous farmers. With the use of this programme, they have access to communication and information, they can be better informed, and meanwhile obtain an improvement of their quality of life. IICD supports the implementation of ICT in the sectors governance, agriculture and education. To date, the support has reached over 700,000 beneficiaries in nine departments. A total of about 200,000 direct users interact directly with the technologies and information and training services in the three program areas.