Fundación Omar Dengo

The Omar Dengo Foundation (FOD) of Costa Rica is a private, non-profit organization that since 1987 has developed and executed national and regional projects in the fields of human development, educational innovation, and digital technologies. Its projects have benefited hundreds of thousands of Costa Ricans, among them children and youth, educators, small business owners, rural communities, women, and senior citizens. The Foundation’s mission is to contribute to improving the quality and equity of learning opportunities for people, in an effort to harness their development through innovative education proposals and models focused on people and the use of digital technologies. FOD has amassed expertise in a broad spectrum of areas, resulting in its ability to execute numerous programs and projects, as well as generate products and services along different action lines. The Foundation´s main areas of expertise are: • Educational Informatics • Research and Impact Measurement of Educational Projects using Digital Technologies • Robotics and Learning by Design, Logic and Mathematics, Programming & Sciences • Entrepreneurship and Digital Productivity • 21st Century Skills • e-Learning • Teachers´ Professional Development • IT Networks