With a grant from Microsoft, World Links opened five community based Telecenters at the beginning of October, 2005. Each Telecenter had a Community Technology Committee and was assigned a Peace Corps Volunteer to give technical and logistical support. All the centers were open to the public and community in general during non-school hours, that is to say after school hours and the weekends. The communities have shown great enthusiasm with the program and hope that the program functions. As with any new project, especially with one as ambitious as this one, there have been some difficulties. There have not been any problems so large that the telecenters could not overcome.

The majority of the challenges were organizational difficulties or personal, but other issues included infrastructure such as electricity and invertors. Each telecenter, like all the computer labs in the country, have to confront the issue of unreliable electric connectivity that plagues the entire Dominican Republic. The Secretary of State and Education (SEE) responded to these issues confronting the Telecenters the best that he could. Although the Telecenters were constantly developing new, innovative ideas to resolve operational problems, they still lacked the necessary resources to purchase or replace expensive equipment. Even with all the difficulties describes above, the Telecenter project has been a success and every day more and more people are trained in the area con Information and Communication Technology (TICs).

All of the centers have completed the second phase of they project and reached the point where there is no longer economic support from World Links. Many of the centers are working on creating strategic alliances in the community to garner support for the telecenters. There has been a focus on strengthening the services that are offered by the center. The majority of the telecenters have sufficient income to sustain their operation and deliver with their services.

Without the internet, the Telecenters have focused all of their energy into training members of the community, thus turning the Telecenters into TIC training centers. When the internet becomes available as a common service, there will be a larger client base with the knowledge and training to take full advantage of the Telecenter and the services offered. The SEE changed the authorizing personnel in charge of the Internet. The World Links schools have priority for the new installation. The SEE planned to have all the Telecenters connected to the internet by the start of the 2006 school year.