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The Vietnam Foundation
The Vietnam Foundation (VNF) is a non-profit 501(c) (3) organization, which is dedicated to improving the lives of the Vietnamese people through education. VNF headquarters is located in Washington D.C., with a representative office in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Education-related projects in Vietnam
VNF has been operating several education-related projects in Vietnam:
 * Vietnam Open Educational Resources (VOER), partially funded by Hewlett Foundation, is a program in collaboration among Vientam Foundation, Rice University, and Ministry of Education and Training (Vietnam) to provide high quality and up-to-date learning and teaching materials for Vietnamese users for free. Up to August, 2011, VOER has a national scale content repository of over 20 thousands learning modules that instructors and students can use, adapt, and reuse for classrooms, research, and professional trainings. VOER also provides a social software platform for everyone to contribute and evaluate content for the repository.
 * Digital Signal Processing Academy (DSPA) has a goal to help Vietnam build a strong capacity in DSP by organizing Summer Schools throughout Vietnam where invited U.S. professors will teach and present research in DSP field to Vietnamese scholars.
 * Scholarship for Talented Blind Students is a charity program to provide support for blind students throughout Vietnam.