Pan-African Symposium

 

Digital Opportunities for Africa –Community Multimedia Centres

  

Dakar, Senegal12 –17 June 2003

 

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:  »

Dakar workshop results

Community mobilisation, integration and sensitisation

Technical challenges

Contents and applications

Sustainability

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

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

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

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

Jinay jisi Kaddasu (Stock sheet)

Han (Date) Hirodiyo (Entrées) Fattadiyo (Sorties)

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(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

knowledge and today the knowledge is here“Marabout” sending email

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!