Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) is a Canadian non-profit organization that provides technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership training programs for young people around the world.
[1][2] DOT’s headquarters are in Ottawa, Ontario, and it also has offices in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Jordan, and the United Kingdom.
[1] DOT’s model is to train local youth, who then teach their own peers skills like digital marketing, financial management, and business development.
[16] A World Bank study from 2016 showed that women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia who participated in a DOT training increased their profits by 30 percent a year later.
[27] Its most recent major project, started in 2023, is a skills training program in Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and Cote D’Ivoire called Going Beyond, which is funded by the Mastercard Foundation.