Methodology
Offer relevant tools to affect true change
Digital Literacy + Civic Education + Entrepreneurship
CDI Community Centers are based on three principal objectives – that they are self-managed, that they are self-sustainable, and that they implement the CDI pedagogy. This unique pedagogy requires that by the end of each 4 month course, students will have used technology as the main tool to initiate, plan, implement and complete a “social advocacy project” aimed at changing an aspect of their realities. Students collectively identify a common challenge facing their community and prepare an action plan to overcome it. Issues can range from sexual abuse, pollution, violence, crime, and drugs, to the lack of healthcare or schools. Students then use the technical skills they’ve learned in class to tackle the problem, mobilize their communities, engage in advocacy and awareness campaigns, and work together to solve that specific problem. The CDI methodology enables people to become active and informed citizens, capable of organizing their communities, making their voices heard, and affecting true change.
Innovating CDI
In its quest to continually increase the breadth and the depth of its impact, CDI mobilized 5 internal working groups from different disciplines to innovate new solutions for efficient growth. The result was the creation of a new multimedia learning environment, new courses, new services with business plans, revised performance indicators, a new monitoring process, and an online platform for communication and collaboration. In addition to making its existing operations more dynamic, CDI is also expanding to new markets.
