Transcript Birama Diallo-Dakar Workshop Results

Pan-African Symposium
Digital Opportunities for Africa –
Community Multimedia Centres
Dakar, Senegal
12 –17 June 2003
Attendum to the Kothmale Declaration
« In view of the Dakar symposium workshop
and keeping in mind the Kothmale
recommendations and NEPAD as context of
reference, the participants would like to
emphasize the following issues: »
Dakar workshop results
Community mobilisation, integration and sensitisation
Technical challenges
Contents and applications
Sustainability
Community mobilisation, integration
and sensitization
 The disabled should be considered as a priority group
 CMCs should contribute to placing greater value on
local cultures
 There should be recognition of the public usefulness of
the CMCs
 The CMCs must not serve as an instrument of propaganda
Technical Challenges
 preventive maintenance a key factor for development,
 finding or developing technology suited to the tropical
environment and local infrastructures
 using alternative energy,
 further developing technical training for staff
 developing and strengthening telecommunications
infrastructures to better serve rural communities
Contents and applications
Putting on-line administrative information such as
forms, official texts and public tenders in order to
enchance access to public information
Favoring the collection, broadcasting and other
distribution of local contents
 African scripts must be digitized to enable development
of contents and software in local languages
Sustainability
 appropriate price scales to be fixed by CMCs to take into
account the socioeconomic circumstances and the needs of
the community,
 CMCs should maintain a complementary relationship with
similar initiatives,
 CMCs should benefit from fiscal advantages and/or exemptions
 African governments and telecommunications companies
should implement preferential tariffs for CMCs
Jinay jisi Kaddasu
(Stock sheet)
cindidi
Han (Date)
Hirodiyo (Entrées)
Fattadiyo (Sorties)
(Stock)
Subanafa in training
Training the women via electronic
voice mail
Training and preventive
maintenance sessions
Introduction suitcase radio
editing session
Radio APAC records children’s
music 6km from the town
Country doctors at the CMC
Banikoara training
Users in Timbuktu
Kids training kids sessions
Teachers doing research at the
CMC
In the past people emigrated to seek
“Marabout” sending email
knowledge
and today the knowledge is here
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!