A Connected Planet

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“The coo is responsible for collecting all required materials needed by the accountants to prepare the federal form 990. Once the form is completed, the accountants provide a draft of the return to the coo for review, and any updates or corrections are submitted to the accountants for review. A revised draft is then submitted to the coo for review. Once the revised draft has been reviewed and is satisfactory, the revised draft is then submitted to the full board of directors for their review prior to being filed with the internal revenue service.”

“All board of directors are required to have executed a written acknowledgement that they have (a) received a copy of acp's bylaws, which contain the conflicts of interest policy; (b) read and understood the policy; (c) agree to comply with the policy; and (d) understand that acp is charitable and in order to maintain its federal tax exemption, it must be engaged primarily in activities which accomplish one or more of its tax exempt purposes.”

“Salaries were initially set based on industry standards for the type of work being done with adjustments with consideration of being a non-profit organization. Both the ceo and coo took significant pay cuts in comparison to their previous positions with similar responsibilities. The salaries were reviewed and approved by the board. It is now our standard process to review and vote on salaries at our annual board meeting where the results are recorded in our minutes.”

“Salaries were initially set based on industry standards for the type of work being done with adjustments with consideration of being a non-profit organization.”

“Acp makes its governing documants, conflict of interest policy, and other organizing documents available to the public upon request.”

“The mission of a connected planet (acp) is to provide telecommunications and technical assistance to enable information sharing and to improve the education & healthcare services provided to children in the developing world.”

“Classroom with open education resource (oer) digital content obtained from a variety of sources. We continued defining and documenting the 'best practices' for the use of tablet computers and the multimedia system in the classroom in developing countries. The methods, procedures, results and findings of the program have been documented and are available on our web site in both english and french. Our efforts and resulting documentation were applauded by the haitian ministry of education and are being used by other organizations to 'quick-start' their programs. During the coming year we will be returning to conduct follow up testing, evaluate new oer and to upgrade some equipment to address deficiencies noted this year.”

“Student testing and teacher guides. The applications support the haitian creole, french, and english languages. This year we conducted several key events. We established a key partnership with ecole suprieure d'infotronique d'hati (esih) university in port-au-prince, haiti. Using classroom space on their campus we conducted a pilot workshop to teach mobile application development. We had 18 participants from academic, public and private sectors. During the workshop we identified four esih students with exceptional skills and we started an internship program at esih. We paid the four interns a stipend to work over the summer developing mother tongue book applications. We have over 60 of these applications now undergoing final quality control reviews before being published to the google play store. We are also still advising the french organization haiti futur on the digitization of education curriculum materials. Acp is seeking grant funding from various organizations to support the oer application development program; however, acp will continue funding the effort internally and through donations.”

“Commercial and military partners in the conflict areas of iraq, syria and afghanistan. They are currently working on the policy changes required to release other types of information.”