ADOC in a nutshell

ADOC has increased educational opportunities for women, and the number of female trainees benefiting in this way rose 16 per cent last year from the 2011 level.
As of October last year, 100 ADOC centres had been established in 10 Apec partner economies: 72 in Asia and 28 in Latin America.
Among them, 11 mobile centres operate in Chile, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.
There are also three centres for the visually and physically impaired, with one each in Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.
As the digital divide is much more pronounced for women and children, ADOC has been working specifically on narrowing the gap in terms of gender and age. Twenty-five per cent of the trainees are under 15 years old.
The digital divide occurs at different levels, which ADOC says is between “the technology haves and have-nots, doers and do-nots, and knowers and know-nots”. That is why improving the access to ICT facilities is its basis for bridging the divide.
Since 2005, the ADOC project has donated 2,253 personal computers and notebooks as well as computer peripherals.
The organisation has conducted trainers’ training programmes since 2005, as a result of which more than 1,800 people have been trained to reach rural areas better and enhance the training capacity of the centres.
These trainers are an important asset of the ADOC project.