Effective development in any country, city or village requires local participation and local skills development. Development Gateway has helped establish a network of nearly 50 Country Gateways—locally owned entities that deliver Web-related services for local and national development needs.

Development Gateway provided seed funding to most of them, as well as software technology to those that needed it. We continue to provide strategic and technical assistance as they grow, prosper and become financially independent.

Common Goals

Each Country Gateway organization is different but they all share Development Gateway’s mission, vision and partnership approach. Through their Web sites and other initiatives, they aim to:

• Promote knowledge-sharing and transparency in government, business and all aspects of development
• Support enterprise, civil society and social entrepreneurship
• Strengthen local and national capacity in the application of information and communications technologies (ICT) for effective development.

Serving Local Needs

Country Gateways provide a growing range of Web-based services for e-government, small enterprise support, e-learning, e-health, online community-building and more. Increasingly, they are providing offline services as well, such as consulting, Web site design, hosting and implementation, application service provision, project management, and e-procurement activities.

Go to Country Gateway Network