Overview - Project Harmony ARMENIA      Switch to Armenian    OVERVIEW Project Harmony was first established in Armenia in the fall of 2000 to implement two US State Department technology grants. While Project Harmony in Armenia has gained a reputation for its work bringing technology into the secondary education systems, from our early days Project Harmony in Armenia has stayed true to the PH mission in community involvement and empowerment. A pilot program, Internet Community Development in the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), was designed to promote the use of the Internet as a democracy-building and community organizing tool for professionals in the Southern Caucasus. The program fostered the development of business support, refugee issues, and assistance to internally displaced persons. The training and outreach activities of the program built the local capacity of professionals in these fields to use and create multi-language online resources such as online newsletters, discussions lists, interactive websites, web chats, and teleconferences. Experience from the pilot program was integrated into the core of the School Connectivity Programs. Project Harmony began implementing the State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant for Armenia Connectivity 2000 (AC2K) in the fall of 2000. Working from this first grant, Project Harmony connected 35 Armenian schools to the Internet through Internet Computer Centers, open to students, teachers, and the community. Another 24 schools, established by the Public Affairs Section of the American Embassy in Armenia and American Councils, were adopted