FOKAL’s library program aims at assisting partner community libraries all over Haiti with funding and training in order to make them as effective as possible for their respective communities. The training for those libraries aims at strengthening and improving the skills of the libraries' clerks, technicians and directors. Since 2003, a training program was set [...]
MIT Prof. Michel DeGraff describes his hopes for MIT’s involvement in helping to rebuild the educational infrastructure in Haiti. Most Haitians I know have a precise and often tragic story about what they were doing when the earthquake hit on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at 4:53PM. In my case the story is not [...]
Professeur Jean-Marie Théodat talks about a vision and goals for reconstruction of Haiti. Videographer: Prof. Michel DeGraff
Pierre-André PIERRE was born in 1952 Arcahaie, Haiti, the oldest of a family of seven children. He first studied in Haiti under “Les Frères de l’Instruction Chretienne” and attended Le College Saint Martial run by “The Holy Ghost Fathers.” He studied Philosophy and Theology in Haiti at the Catholic Mayor Seminary, to be ordained [...]
Yves Armand is the Deputy General Director of NATCOM S.A. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Université du Québec A Montréal. Mr. Armand has been working at TELECO for six (6) years before it became NATCOM on September 1st, 2010 and will be helping the new Public-Private company (with [...]
Nguyen Dang Trien is NATCOM’s newly appointed President and CEO. He has an Engineering degree in Electronic Telecommunication from the University of Technology in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In the last three years, Mr. Trien conducted VIETTEL’s operations in Cambodia. He helped build a new telephone company there from scratch, and after 2 [...]
Sergey W. Gaillard was born in Port-au-Prince Haiti in 1963. He grew up in the capital. At age 19 he worked as a receptionist to pay for his studies in accounting and management. Subsequently, he was hired as a financial specialist at the US Embassy and was quickly promoted to supervisor of the Budget [...]
We have published information about the symposium for invited participants. You should have received an email detailing how to access these protected portions of the website. If you have any questions, please contact Professor Michel DeGraff of MIT at degraff -at- mit -dot- edu.
For the last 2 years, Educatech has provided for its classrooms what we call a "numeric room" that includes interactive boards, projectors, a laptop for the teacher, and twenty-five to thirty Intel Classmate PCs for students. Most schools added a router and an internet connection--although the bandwidth was only 64kbps, but this is what they [...]
English Biography Lyonel Sanon was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He completed his primary studies (1955–1962) at the School of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, and high school (1962– 1969) at the Lycée Anténor Firmin. He studied in 1972 to 1975 at the École Normale Supérieure of Haiti’s State University in the Modern [...]
