About the Foundation

Our vision

• Provide a quality education for their children. We believe that children should have every opportunity to reach their full potential and to have the skills and knowledge to be able to participate fully in the world.
• Exercise their rights to participate meaningfully in decisions affecting their lives.
• Be empowered to generate their own solutions for social and economic prosperity.

Our mission

Our mission is to harness the potential that information technologies have to make a positive impact on the lives of children, their families and their communities.

We aim to help bridge the digital divide by providing computers and connecting them to the internet for transformative and sustainable educational programs. These technologies will also help developing vocational and life-long learning for adults, open avenues for entrepreneurial opportunities, and allow access to important information relating to health, wellbeing and economic prosperity.

Providing technology goes hand-in-hand with community capacity building to nurture a knowledge base that will allow the community to sustain a computer centre and enlarge the range of choices that can be made locally regarding new programs. We are building technical skills, community leadership and governance, and experience in the formulation of policies, teacher training and digital content development.

Our beneficiaries are communities in low socioeconomic circumstances, particularly those in developing countries, where we are invited to find ways that computer technologies can bring long-term and sustainable benefits. We are starting in Nepal because it remains one of the world's poorest countries.

We also identify outstanding local students and foster their education in the areas of teaching, computer and information science by providing student scholarships.

We provide pathways for volunteers to spend time in the communities we work with to assist with teaching, development of teacher resources, training in the use of digital technologies, and to help with setting up computer facilities.

Our difference

• We are purely not-for-profit and are motivated by seeing the lives of people improved.
• The money raised will go to projects and will not be used for running an office in Australia or overseas, or for the accommodation and transportation of project managers and volunteers. We do not pay Directors fees or employee salaries or give any form of gratuity payment to volunteers in or from outside the program country. Our administrative costs are small and will be limited to less than 5% of what we raise.
• All individuals who are associated with Logged On - Foundation office holders, volunteers and members - do so because they share our vision and want to make a difference.
• We work in partnership and dialogue with local schools and communities to conceptualise and design programs to meet local needs and solve local problems. Local ownership is central to our approach and we understand that success comes from initiatives that are locally driven.
• We aim to build capacity within the communities we help. We want local people to realise their potential for 'better lives'. Top-down perceptions of what constitutes better lives do not always coincide with real needs and we are determined to create 'bottom up' community empowerment programs.
• We aim to promote excellence, professionalism and best practice in all areas of our work, and instil these values in those people who volunteer and work with us.

The reason for our approach

There are many projects occurring in developing countries that make clever use of the information technology push to improve the social and economic circumstances of poor and marginalised communities.

In a 2009 United Nations report on youth and information and communication technologies (ICTs), there was a clear recognition that "Information and communication technologies, if used effectively, have the potential to transform and drastically improve the state of education that exists in the developing world and is thus a key driver for all the work being done on education development." (read more)

In addition, the use of ICTs in non-formal education programs to foster participation of disadvantaged people in literacy, basic education and continuing education activities is at the centre of projects in many community development programs around the world. For examples of ICTs being used for community empowerment, visit the UNESCO website.