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.”

“Approximately 10,000 students around the country are part of the fic network. Fic holds the rights to more than 50% of the neutral academic schoolbooks used in all types of schools in haiti, which gives them sustainability. In 2017 we delivered the core application, style guide and started teacher training at 9 pilot schools in port au prince, haiti. During this past year we conducted workshops and instituted a training program for developers. Now all of the initial coding is done by haitian developers that we have trained. During this year we released the first, second and third grade applications which can be found on the google play application store. During the year acp continued efforts to develop and release free applications in the google play and apple itunes stores. Acp has been developing two types of education-related mobile applications. The first type of applications is general education apps which are used to teach basic letter, word and number recognition. The second type of application is mother tongue books apps. Mother tongue books (mtb) is a program started by the matnwa community learning center on the island of la gonve, haiti. They work with haitian children in schools to write and illustrate short stories. Acp has converted several of these books into standalone mobile applications which include the book, audio, student testing and teacher guides. The applications support the haitian creole, french, and english languages.”

“Practices' for the use of tablet computers and the multimedia system in the classroom in developing countries. We upgraded more lcd projectors to a new high intensity casio system which uses laser and lcd technology. The new projectors can be seen in the open air classrooms without the need for curtains on the sides of the building. We also upgraded the interactive stylus systems used with the interactive whiteboards to a much more 'user friendly' model. During this year acp also worked with the sena school in port au prince which focuses on students between the ages of 9 and 14 who have never attended school. We also worked with the christian veterinarian mission who is providing technician training to local students. In both these cases we provided equipment as well as training.”

“Currently working on the policy changes required to release other types of information. For example, they are currently working on methodologies to both collect and distribute information on locations which will be excluded from military operations in combat areas because of their humanitarian nature.”