SDNP continued to provide Internet services to agencies in the government and NGO sectors. We host webpages for  Government Ministries and other agencies.

Development of human resources
SDNP (Guyana) continues to hire part-time and volunteer trainees in order to supplement its own staff and to help develop local talent. Other clients are trained to develop their own pages.

Special assistance given to the University
On-going help was given to the University with their email BBS (Waffle). Several times problems were corrected. A UUCP connection was created for their use so that their system could connect to our server instead of to a server in Puerto Rico which requires many hours of overseas phone charges per week. No other local ISP provides such a service.

A web site for the University is hosted by SDNP. The University is in the process of updating the pages.

Developing local content
Web page hosting continues to be an expanding area and vital to our objectives. A list of the web sites is maintained at http://www.sdnp.org.gy/clientpages.html

Work is in progress on sites for the National Library, Parliamentary Library and the Public Service Ministry. The sites for the Amerindian Peoples' Association and the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology were lauched during September 2000 (Amerindian Heritage Month)

Assistance given to UNDP
Technical assistance was given to UNDP (Guyana) in areas such as email handling, email and internet security and web page design. SDNP will assume the role of webmaster for UNDP Guyana.

Sustainability
One important goal of SDNP is to become financially self-supporting by selling services and participating in projects. Some clients have been paying for services since early 1998. The following activities are planned :-

• Connection of 12 schools through the SSRP and GEAP projects. The other schools need computers and modems. These will be connected as the schools request.
• Development of public access points in Mabaruma, Lethem, New Amsterdam, Corriverton through the National Libraries' Project
• Participate in the development of the national strategies for IT, e-commerce and other related areas
• Contiue to provide local content by motivating local agencies to develop
• Provide access to Internet based resources such as educational and training material for teachers, health workers and other professionals at the community levels.