DDI has a long-standing relationship with IBM and receives technical support, equipment and grants to promote technology. DDI promotes these IBM tools and programs:

¡TradúceloAhora! (Translate Now) is a web-based grant program enabling users to automatic bidirectional translation of website content and e-mail messages in English and Spanish.

KidSmart integrates interactive teaching and learning activities to encourage learning for pre-kindergarten and school-age kids.

Reading Companion is a web-based literacy grant program that enables young and adult readers to select e-books on a variety of topics from a library and read them to the computer using a headset microphone. Reading Companion provides feedback and data on the skills of the reader.

TryScience is an interactive, online science resource that brings the science center experience to the web.

TryEngineering is a resource for students, their parents, their teachers and their school counselors.

“The SME Toolkit is a free program that enables entrepreneurs and small businesses to learn how to implement the sustainable business management practices needed for growth in areas such as finance, accounting, international business, marketing, human resources or legal.”

World Community Grid allows volunteers to donate unused computing power to researchers around the world using grid computing technology. World Community Grid is installed on all DDI computers.
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