About me
He is Jimmy BRUCE, born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (W.I) one Wednesday of August 05th 1976 at 7h00 pm in full summer time. He grew up in a family of four with a strict education/instruction centered on “Success in All”.

Attending school since his third existing year, he succeeded kindergarten, primary and secondary school while opting in the 10th grade for a special 3-year fulltime program with the double objective to get the High School Diploma and to have a Commercial Bachelor Degree with the Accounting Option. This was a pilot program implemented at Canado Technical School (Centre de Formation Professionnelle d’Haïti, CFPH-CANADO), after a competitive selection, by the Haitian State (1993 - 1996) in partnership with the French and Canadian Governments, with the final objective of preparing some 30 youth for a Commercial Bachelor Degree in Accounting and Administrative Secretary with Advanced Computer Classes.

After taking a one-year course (1996 - 1997) in economy in the concerned faculty of the Haitian State University and several trainings linked to Computer, he entered a Private Commercial Bank (BUH S.A) for an experience of 3 years ending as Credit Operations Manager for Pétion-Ville Branch for the period of July 1997 - January 2000. He integrated e-Strat (Electronic Strategy), an e-Business Consulting Firm for the period of June 2000 - May 2002 as the Sales and Marketing Manager. He created the “BJnet Computer Technology and Services” in the year of 2002 that has served its community in providing Internet Access at a lower cost, Computer Training and other related-computer services; He occupied then the function of CEO. In the year 2003, He joined the team of CAITI (Center of Assistance for IT Initiatives) in which he was the Projects Manager until May 2004.

As a result of analysis and consultations with different young leaders, youth-led organizations and diverse other stakeholders around my community, he founded “YESDEV”, late in 2004. It stands for “Young Entrepreneurs for a Sustainable Development” and aims specifically at bringing together young economic and social entrepreneurs, young recognized leaders, youth organizations, volunteers and people who work with youth into a platform while working with the four focal points (“Natural Resources, Social, Environment, Economy”) of the “Sustainability”.

Since the year 2000, he has been struggling to promote the use of ICTs around his community by the Best Practices for a Sustainable Development. He also acted as the Responsible of the Committee for the National Youth-Campaign on the Information Society (ran by CAITI) in his country preparing the first phase of the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) held in December 2003 at Geneva, Switzerland.

He acted as an International Correspondent for Jóvenes Lideres El Salvador by sending Periodical Articles, Essays and by transmitting the perspectives, the vision and the situation of youth in his living country. He is taking part in the IDB Distance-Education by following online courses on Projects Design. He was admitted for the 2006 Online Program of DiploFoundation (www.diplomacy.edu) for its Internet Governance Program, he succeeded both the course and the research programs. He is playing the role of National Coordinator (since May 2005) for the Young Americas Business Trust Haiti (YABT Haiti), and also helped them realize locally a Pre-Foro leading to the Foro held in August 2005 in Argentina.

His first Award was BUH MasterCard Prize for Selling Credit Card to a large number of consumers. Pétion-Ville, Haiti - November 1999.

After the selection of a project based on ICTs (“Computer for School” that he developed for the Organization CAITI) submitted in an e-showcase of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), he was invited to participate in a large range of events (International Seminar, Voluntary Service, Socio-Cultural Activities and the 45th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of IDB) held in Peru in March 2004, where he won an Award celebrating YOUTH-ENTREPRENEURSHIP and VOLUNTEERISM.

He has been selected among the ten (10) nominees from the Americas to be part in the “Forum Action Jeunes Citoyens” of the Office Québec-Amériques pour la Jeunesse (OQAJ) in Montreal, Canada - October 2004. The aim of this Forum is to share ideas on current projects in the region and the opportunity to strengthen our actions towards a greater sustainability. Further, it is to give the occasion to discover the work of many community organizations within Montreal City, to participate in thematic workshops and to take part in the session of the International Youth Council for the recommendations of the young adults to the responsible citizen of this world.

For the “LAC – Asia NGO Youth Exchange Program 2005” of the IDB-Japan Program, he has been selected as one of the 10 participants among more than 150 very competitive candidates from the region of the Americas to participate in an Internship in Taiwan for six weeks. The aim of this initiative is to provide an opportunity for young people from LAC to learn from their Asian peers about innovative and sustainable approaches to tackle similar socio-economic challenges (through NGOs). And, to promote inter-regional networking and collaboration by bringing youth from Asia and LAC together to facilitate and sustain ongoing interaction, learning, sharing of knowledge, experiences, best practices and lessons learned.

After a Successful Completion of the Phase 1 of the “Internet Governance Course” of DiploFoundation (www.diplomacy.edu), he was admitted to follow the Research Program (Phase 2) and was one of the 14 nominees out of more than 70 participants worldwide for the Fellowship Programme – Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Athens, Greece – October/November 2006. The aim of this Forum is to take part in a high level discussion on Internet Governance and to attend a Workshop on Diplomatic Skills: "Negotiation and Chairing International Meetings".

For the last quarter of year 2006, he is taking new measures, in the head of a team, to establish officially the National Branch of YABT in Haiti (www.yabthaiti.org) with the incorporation of the Training Institute, which has two branches (the Institute of Business and the Institute of Information Technology), which will support partially our work.

As part of his entrepreneurship spirit, he co-founded “Bring ICT to Haiti” in March 2005. He is leading this type of IT Social Enterprise that aims at supporting the operation costs of the Organization YESDEV. The mission of this institution is to give computer training, computer maintenance, network designing and administration, installation of satellite internet connection, negotiating with providers for customers and other computer related services.

And finally, he has been involved in a many social projects as Developer or Counselor. He has led the Entrepreneurship/ICT Training (two pilot projects to give training to underprivileged youth) for Réseau de Développement Durable d’Haïti – RDDH of the UNDP and CAITI in the middle of 2006. He has participated in many Business, Information Technology and other Development Seminars and Forums locally and internationally. He has a Project Proposal Plan that he submitted to 39 other youth he met at Lima coming from the whole Americas for the IDB event; the object of this plan is for writing a Book on Social Capital and setting up a Virtual Regional Organization that aims at promoting Youth Entrepreneurship and Volunteerism, Community Services, ICT for Sustainable Development in order to meet some of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Latin America and the Caribbean. This Project is on the planning stage for now.

His perspective now is to find Global and Effective Partnerships for the Projects he involves in within the framework of large scale solidarity in order to achieve the goals of the Sustainable Development leading to the Poverty Reduction, especially among young people in our Country.


His most important Distinctions and Awards received:

BUH MasterCard Prize for Selling Credit Card. Pétion-Ville, Haiti. November 1999.

Nominee IDB YOUTH – MASTERCARD AWARD for “Youth Entrepreneurship and Volunteerism”. Lima, Peru. March 2004.

Nominee for the “Forum Action Jeunes Citoyens” of the Office Québec-Amériques pour la Jeunesse (OQAJ). Montréal, Canada. October 2004.

Nominee for the Fellowship Programme – Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Athens, Greece. October/November 2006.







He is Jimmy BRUCE, born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (W.I) one Wednesday of August 05th 1976 at 7h00 pm in full summer time. He grew up in a family of four with a strict education/instruction centered on “Success in All”.

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