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Pan-African Symposium
Digital Opportunities for Africa –Community Multimedia Centres
Dakar, Senegal12 –17 June 2003
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Attendum to the Kothmale Declaration
« In view of the Dakar symposium workshopand keeping in mind the Kothmale
recommendations and NEPAD as context ofreference, the participants would like to
emphasize the following issues: »
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Dakar workshop results
Community mobilisation, integration and sensitisation
Technical challenges
Contents and applications
Sustainability
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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
Community mobilisation, integrationand sensitization
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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
Technical Challenges
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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
Contents and applications
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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
Sustainability
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Jinay jisi Kaddasu (Stock sheet)
Han (Date) Hirodiyo (Entrées) Fattadiyo (Sorties)
cindidi
(Stock)
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Subanafa in training
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Training the women via electronic voice mail
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Training and preventive maintenance sessions
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Introduction suitcase radio editing session
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Radio APAC records children’s music 6km from the town
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Country doctors at the CMC
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Banikoara training
Users in Timbuktu
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Kids training kids sessions
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Teachers doing research at the CMC
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In the past people emigrated to seek
knowledge and today the knowledge is here“Marabout” sending email
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!