Mediated audio visual instruction uses A/V solutions to facilitate greater knowledge transfer in difficult and hard-to-reach communities. OMPT is on the cutting edge of working with partners to bring these audio-visual content and knowledge solutions to partners working in the field to improve the lives of the world's poorest people.

"Ingredient Provider" for Development

As an ingredient provider for groups engaged in international development projects with learning components, OMPT is geographically diverse and provides services, technology equipment and content solutions that can help address any number of critical development areas, including:

• Disease Prevention
• Language and mathematics literacy
• Agricultural extension and crop production
• Maternal and reproductive health
• Hygiene and sanitation
• Sustainable environmental practices
• Economic self sufficiency
• Civic engagement
• Conflict resolution

The OMPT Pico Pack includes everything required to bring video creation and dissemination to the international development arena.

Typical Program Elements:

Our process focuses on the needs of instructors working in very difficult conditions. A typical project involves a series of steps for implementation:

1. Partner Engagement and Needs Assessment
2. Project Specification and Solution Configuration
3. A/V Equipment and Audio-Visual Content Procurement and/or Production
4. Partner and Instructor Training in A/V Equipment and Instructional Methods
5. Equipment Delivery and Deployment
6. Site Visits, Field Assessments and Additional On-Site Training
7. Monitoring and Evaluation Consultation and Participation

Technology Services: Evaluation, Sourcing and Design

For partners already using various A/V instructional tools, OMPT evaluates and recommends improved technology solutions. OMPT team members attend tradeshows throughout the world to meet engineers and vendors designing and selling equipment for use in challenging conditions typical in the developing world. We acquire the equipment, put it through a rigorous set of tests, and recommend improvements to the manufacturers.

The OMPT labs also conduct rigorous evaluations of rechargeable battery solutions used to power the media players, loudspeakers, micro-projectors, camcorders and other devices used in our A/V technology configurations. The solar, hand-crank and vehicle battery configurations are tested to operate in the extreme environments we expect they will encounter. For any of this equipment, OMPT can act as an intermediary for sourcing and shipping.