Archive for septembre, 2004

Geekcorps Mali announces the launch of its new website: http://mali.geekcorps.org
This site will be used to provide information about our programs in Mali. It will include project news, technical information, and project status (milestones), as well as a regularly updated list of “who’s who” in Geekcorps Mali.We designed and maintain this site using SPIP, a free program that is gaining popularity in the francophone world for creating and managing web sites. Learning how to work with it as we built this site might have slowed the design/development process down a bit, but it was worthwhile; we will use our new SPIP expertise to provide easy-to-maintain websites to our partner radio stations under the domain name radio.org.ml.

Ce groupe comprends les membres de Geekcorps, des étudiants et des professeurs de l’université de Bamako et bien d’autres…

Le premier programme numérique a été créé et diffusé par la Radio Guintan Magnambougou - Bamako. Il s’agit d’un programme d’un vingtaine de minutes.

Nous sommes fiers d’annoncer l’ouverture de notre site-web pour les programmes de IESC Geekcorps au Mali :
http://mali.geekcorps.org
Cet site publie des nouvelles et informations sur nos programmes de développement au Mali. On pourra ainsi y suivre les étapes importantes du projet, y trouver des données techniques, et une liste régulièrement mise à jour des membres de l’équipe Geekcorps Mali.

Le site tourne sous SPIP, un logiciel de gestion des contenus populaire dans le pays francophones. Nous avons choisi d’acquérir de l’expérience sur SPIP, au prix d’un plus lent développement de ce site, en vue d’en faire profiter les radios. Cela valait la peine, car nous pouvons leur fournir désormais un système facile à utiliser leur permettant de mettre à jour leurs contenus publiés sous le domaine radio.org.ml.

Pilot site Guintan-Magnambougou has wireless Internet.On Thursday, September 23, Geekcorps set up wireless Internet access at Radio Guintan’s Bamako station in the Magnambougou quartier.
Radio Guintan-Magnambougou first served as a testing ground for Geekcorps digital studio editing system. Now they are the first station to the Geekcorps Mali project to have wireless Internet access.Volunteers Rian Aldridge and Pierre Kaluzny installed an antenna on the roof of the Magnambougou station, which picks up a signal from Datatech (on the other side of town, in Hippodrome).

A presentation from the Wireless in Development conference that Ian Howard and Johnny Brown attended.
At the Wireless in Development conference, Ian and Johnny attended a session led by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

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This morning at 10:00 a.m., Radio Belekan, our second radio partner, broadcast their first digitally mastered program.
This program was designed in Bambara by Alima Traoré, and reported the difficulties that the school’s parents’ association of Kambla (a village near Kati) is facing. Lack of classes, lack of teachers, and poor support of parents (e.g., non-attendance of the association’s meeting) are the problems mentioned in this program, which lasts 25 minutes.

New office is open for business.
In an effort to make life easier for Geekcorps Mali staff and volunteers, as well as to lessen the distance to its partners, the offices of Geekcorps Mali have moved from one corner of sprawling Bamako to the other. IESC Geekcorps Mali is now in Quartier Hippodrome, a long time favourite part of town for Non Governmental Agencies and their staff.

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At present there are two providers whom are offering broadband Internet service marketed for residential use, via “wireless”.
Home service implies a limited bandwidth connection, that is suitable for one computer connected to the Internet. The two providers are Afribone as mentioned by Criss and the second DataTech, whom are headquartered in Hippodrome.

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