A Collaboration between World Computer Exchange, Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP), Foundation for Education and Development (FED),  Internet Society of Bangladesh (ISOCBD) and Institute of Computer Management and Science (ICMS).

Bridging the global digital divide for our kids and for our future

ISOCBD is working with the above mentioned organisations  along with six other NGOs to distribute a total of 200 computers and monitors to schools all over Bangladesh. It is a collaboration program with The World Computer Exchange a USA based organisation working to collect and distribute used computers among the schools of poor country. The World Computer Exchange is also working to connect students with students in US schools and help them to get internet connection as well as to develop Websites to share their information, history, culture and heritage.

The World Computer Exchange provides disadvantaged youth with access to computers and the Internet. They collect working computers which are too often discarded and place them with educational organisations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. They are currently working with 34 partner organisations and 80 potential partners in 41 countries who have signed-up over 780 schools and centres with 250,000 youth.

The World Computer Exchange bridges the global digital divide by promoting cultural understanding between students from different countries and by facilitating the use of technology in education.

The World Computer Exchange work with in-country partners to craft sustainable plans for the installation, connection, and maintenance required to provide Internet access in participating schools, orphanages, and learning centres. Based on these approved plans, they send monthly shipping containers of 380 working, Internet-accessible computers and monitors.

Placing donated computers with qualified educational partners

The Exchange works simultaneously to gather donations of working computers in the United States and other highly-developed countries while developing partnerships with non-governmental organisations in countries that can benefit from our assistance.

The World Computer Exchange has now entered into formal partnership agreements with 36 organisations that have recruited 780 schools and centres serving 300,000 youth in 25 countries.  In Ghana, the Centre for the Empowerment of the Vulnerable leads our newest partnership which also includes the Rural Upgrade Support Organisation and the Center for Development of People.  The Federation of Small Organisations leads our new partnership in Sri Lanka.

Since April, the Exchange has shipped containers of computers to our partners in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Nepal and we have a container ready to be shipped next week to our partners in the Self Employed Women s Association in Gujarat state, India.  We have worked closely on this shipment with two of our 18 Allied Organisations, Asha for Education and Digital Partners.  By the end of this calendar year, we plan to ship containers to Ecuador and Uganda and to Benin and Bangladesh with the financial support of another of our Allied Organisations, the Sustainable Development Networking Programme of the United Nations Development Programme which also provided funding for our shipment to Cameroon.