Armenia School Connectivity Program

The Armenia School Connectivity Program (ASCP) is a program which provides training, resources and internet access for schools in Armenia. It is implemented by Project Harmony and funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs through the 1992 Freedom Support Act. The program allows the students, educators and community members of Armenia to access and share information. It is meant to increase the U.S-Armenian partnership at the schools and within the community, increase interaction between schools and the community, and civic engagement on the local, national and international levels. The Armenian School Connectivity Program supports the integration of educational technologies that is supposed to strengthen democracy and support civil society and cultural understanding.

The schools recruited to the ASCP went through a competition completed on October 15, 2004. During the site set-up of the ASCP, local schools were affected by the rearrangements initiated within the framework of Armenia Education Quality and Relevance Project. The school building maintenance funds increased, becoming higher than the staff/student number involved in the ASCP network; this resulted in some ASCP schools to merge into one another, decreasing the number of schools involved in the network. A program assessment had a few more schools removed from the network for not having an adequate level of participation in the program. In the end, 330 schools were selected from all over Armenia to be a part of the Program network.

The recruitment process for the ASCEP was held under the Program Promotion and Enrollment Competition. Project Harmony announced the launching of the recruitment along with a program introductory highlighting the principals and specifics about the recruitment requirements and process that were distributed to all schools within the region. There was a Q&A session that applicants received; afterwards, possible applicants were given a follow-up consultation meeting with Project Harmony in all of the 11 regions. The selected schools that were part of the ASCP program were chosen based on the following criteria implemented by Project Harmony:

The online scrapbook is a competition meant to assess the development of the Armenian School Connectivity Program within its first six years running.

The responsibility of Project Harmony (PH) was the long-term sustainability of the program. From the years 2000-2007, Project Harmony completed 3 interrelated school connectivity programs in Armenia. The first program implemented by PH, is referred to as Armenia connectivity 2000 (AC2K), outlined the expansion of Internet access through assessing the information and communication technology needs within the education system.

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