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Bujumbura

Burundi became independent in 1962. Since independence, Bujumbura has been the scene of frequent fighting between the country's two main ethnic groups, with Hutu militias opposing the Tutsi-dominated Burundi army

Presentation by: Jean-Claude KAMWENUBUSA

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(ASASS-BURUNDI)a.s.b.l -Sanitaire

POBOX: 6564 BUJUMBURA-BURUNDITel: +254 77 763651Email: info@healthwelfarework.org www.healthwelfarework.org

CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES. MOBILE PHONES AND INTERNET IN LATIN AMERICA AND AFRICA: What benefits for the most disadvantaged in EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY AND

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Since 1997,volunteers young students andAdult professionals who are Currently members of ASASS-BURUNDI promote ICT computer connectedto internet in urban cities and ICT mobile phone powered by DIY SOLARsmall pv panels, in rural ereas where there are no electricity, to connect andcollaborate with professors, Institutors, students and involve people inthese two different communities (URBAN & RURAL) for sustainabledevelopment and MDGs goal supporting in Burundi and RDC Congo.

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We believe that Technologies,Information and communication(ICT) are key tools to promote aBetter World For All (ABW4ALL),peace, self-reliance andsustainable development over theworld.

We recognise that an Africa withouta sustainable, strong knowledge,connectedness, cooperation onsustainable development programsworldwide of its own will alwaysremain in a dangerously dependentposition.

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Since the long and turbulent history, the African many people, especially in Burundi have noformal or informal capital and people have less capital, especially in ICT KWOWLEDGE,SKILLS AND IN CAPITAL ECONOMIC to sustain their survival as a nation.In this context, education has been always considered by African, as the one prerequisitenot only for nation building, but also for achieving a genuine and sustainable peace, cultural,social and global arts needs. Since the establishment of Association for solidarity, Healthand social assistance (ASASS-Burundi), has commit it self to reform the inherited educationand socio-economic development system with the aim to of promoting ICT, assist thepreparation of the African, particularly Burundian citizens towards sustainable livingstandards in a democratic society, through the application of ICT Mobile technologies inrural areas and ICT computers connected to the Internet in urban communities.

Burundi as other many countries of Africa, recognize education deterioration due to the warand social conflicts, so there is an urgent need of improving EDUCATION,TEACHING AND LEARNING, INCREASING UNIVERSITY AND HIGH EDUCATIONPROGRAMES IN THE COMMUNITIES OF AFRICA where quality education services areless accessible, not affordable, less developed or improved and where academic rateattendance is low because of several issues surrounding it: poverty, lack of qualifiedhuman resources, ICT, infrastructures and financial as well as other fundamentalneeds for development.

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Furthermore, service learning and education services are provided in inequality, forexample, Education in Burundi reaches only a limited portion of the population: only43% of adults are literate (53% males versus 32% of females), due to the civil waroccurred since1993-2005 which destroyed pedagogic and economic infrastructures.

Recognizing that in industrial transforming civilized world, there is a vast economic,social and political change.

As we step forward into the information Age, we face the very real challenge ofredirecting the decades of African higher education, making Information,Communication and Technologies (ICT) accessible, be used by all, so that youth mustbe ready to struggle with the demands of the new global economy, the new realitiesfacing government, news daily information human rights needs and the newchallenges of a multicultural world.

!"#$%&'(()!ASASS-BURUNDI though TERIMBERE SOCIETY, HUMAN AWARD UNIVERSALSCHOOL program, tied a partnership with IWITH FOUNDATION www.iwith.org, toImproving access to the higher education and lifelong learning, the major priority ofthe Governments of East African Community countries, especially the Burundi country.

ASASS-Burundi has been expanded the services of the MOBILE PHONEInformation and Communication Technologies (ICT) AND the access to ICTCOMPUTERS connected to the Internet in Burundi and in the Internationalcommunities, for the development of the local communities and the improvement ofthe social and economic situation of the people.

Since 2008, in partnership with IWITH FOUNDATION, ASASS-BURUNDI hasundertaken a program of education, research and communication with thetechnologies support by WITH.ORG.

Through the ONLINE CAMPUS GENERATION EDUCATION(AGE MISSION), ASASS-Burundi has planned to launch academic e-courses and lifetraining programs for human resources and various responsible in Africa, to ensure asustainable partnership with ICT industries for economic development and innovationin education and Information Technologies solutions for all through pedagogicaltechniques empowerment by Information and technologies that catalyse economicand social development, path to 2015.

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With ICT mobile phone and Computer:- Professionnels in ASASS-Burundi, through TERIMBERE HumanAward Universal School program, Collaborate via ICT MOBILEPHONES, SMS mobile phones exchange to plan curricula, adopteand amendate documents with the consultation of rural people of thecommunities of Burundi within north provinces of Burundi wherethere are major social, health and economic problems.

- With simple ICT mobile phone, people in wherever they are,everywhere they go and at anytime, in Burundi and worldwide, takepart in communities Development small programs Managment,planning, Implementation and evaluation and Counselling (E.g:Mobile Psychosocial Counselling on HIV/AIDS, Trauma Healing,Children urgence consultation via telephone ) in ButerereCommunity Development Centre( BCDC) of ASASS-Burundi

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