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DIGITAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR AFRICA: COMMUNITY MULTIMEDIA CENTRES

DIGITAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR AFRICA: COMMUNITY MULTIMEDIA CENTRES UNESCO/AMARC, Dakar, 12-17 June, 2003 INFORMATION, EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION: HOW TO PROVIDE IT, HOW TO GET IT Polly Gaster, CIUEM, Mozambique. Power = physical access to resources + capacity to use them

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DIGITAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR AFRICA: COMMUNITY MULTIMEDIA CENTRES

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  1. DIGITAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR AFRICA: COMMUNITY MULTIMEDIA CENTRES UNESCO/AMARC, Dakar, 12-17 June, 2003 INFORMATION, EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION: HOW TO PROVIDE IT, HOW TO GET IT Polly Gaster, CIUEM, Mozambique

  2. Power = physical access to resources + capacity to use them • Development = circulation and redistribution of information resources • Information = a public good (not a market commodity) • Content & infrastructure = mutual interdependence STARTING POINTS

  3. CMC managers / committees / activists • CMC users • CMC outreach activities WHO NEEDS THE CONTENT?

  4. Language – Official? Local? • Target group – Direct? Indirect? External? • Technical level – User equipment? Skills? • Relevance – Usefulness to users? WHAT KIND OF CONTENT?

  5. TECHNICAL FORMATS

  6. General information needs: • Health issues (eg AIDS, malaria, hygiene) • Education (material for teachers, students, non-formal) • Local and national news • Local events, deaths, etc • Weather, agriculture, disasters • Women’s specific needs: • Help for income generation • Moral education for the young • The need to speak and be heard: • Local production, national production MOZAMBIQUE’S EXPERIENCE

  7. Websites: • for users, eg teachers, telecentre managers • about telecentres, for outside • about Mozambique/Mozambican matters • CD-Roms: • for education • information – History of Mozambique, Census, investment, legislation, information for women … • open learning – Malaria project • resources for telecentres • Networking and training: • discussion list, exchange visits Radio and other forms of communication/ transformation MOZAMBIQUE’S EXPERIENCE

  8. “I have used e-mail to spread the word about the products that I and my colleagues produce, and … it works! Our products earn our living and our children’s too.” • “I have two children studying in South Africa. Now I go to the telecentre every day to read their messages and send replies. They thought it was someone else sending e-mails in my name because I wouldn’t be able to do it.” Two women from the Women’s Forum course CONCLUSIONS

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