Archive for octobre, 2005

Félicitations à M. Sory MAIGA, Radio Guintan Magnambougou. Il est le troisième gagnant du concours organisé par Geekcorps Mali dans le cadre de la promotion pour la publication du contenu numérique.

Il a été choisis grâce à son implication dans la production et la publication des articles pertinents pour le développement de son communauté sur le site Web de son Radio Guintan Magnambougou.

Son prix de récompense est un “Megastick,” (MP3 player / USB clef / enregistreur de voix). Nous espérons qu’il lui sera très utile dans la création de contenu numérique pour son radio.

Details du concours

Niagadina is a village located in the south western part of Mali and about 100km from the capital Bamako. The trip from Bamako to Niagadina takes about 2h30mn by car because of it difficult access road.

Early, in morning we left Bamako to Niagadina and we arrived in Niagadina around 10:30am. When we arrived in Niagadina, we found out t the Mayor was unfortunately out of the village, but Mr.Toure the general secretary was expecting us since the day before.

After few minutes at the Mayor’s office we headed out to the local pharmacy, where the installation of the new Cybertigi took place in Niagadina.

Ludovic, Brennan, and I had decided to walk to the pharmacy because it was very beautiful outside, and the distance from the mayor’s office to the pharmacy was not far.

The village of Niagadina does remind me a lot of some parts of northern Maine, because of its beautiful nature.

When we got to the pharmacy, the local manager Ms Diabaté was eager to see us. She has been also chosen to manager the kiosk Cybertigi in Niagadina because of her education background.

After few minutes of greetings and excitement from the local people,

Ludovic started to figure out how to climb on the top of the roof of the pharmacy. One by one a lot people from the village came to assist us on our work.. While Ludovic was installing the solar panel on top of the roof, Brennan and I were teaching the new manager how to use the digital camera.

The digital photo was one of the most exciting things for the villagers and everyone wanted to know how to take pictures with it. When the new manager was training herself on the digital camera, Brennan and I started doing the wiring and at the same time Ludovic was installing the battery,

the whole process was really rapid, and by 3:30pm Cybertigi in Niagadina was up and running.

On July 20th Niagadina was connected to the rest of the world via Cybertigi. Niagadigana is a village located in the south western part of Mali which has difficult access road and to electricity, but last Thursday Geekcorps made it possible for the people of this remote village to be able to e-mail.

Being able to send and receive e-mail in Niagadina is a dream come true not just for the people of Niagadina but also for the people of Mali, which remains one of the poorest countries in the world.

A member of the local mayor’s office and respected member of the community was quoted as saying, “this is unbelievable to me, hearing that you can send and receive the message as far as France in the same day. Because of our difficult access to the post office our mail can take months to reach the destination and sometimes it never reaches its destination at all, but I do not blame them because the system is so difficult”.

Thanks to Cybertigi, the people of Niagadina can now check and reply to their mail on a weekly basis.

La formation de l’équipe de la Radio Wassoulou (Yanfolila) sur le montage audio est maintenant complète. La radio a diffusé lundi 4 octobre à 20h40 sa première émission montée sur ordinateur.
Cette émission hebdomadaire se nomme “Commune Kunkan” (l’écho de la commune).
Le sujet du jour est la restitution d’une conférence ayant eu lieu à la mairie de Yanfolila, et ayant eu pour thème le tranfert de compétences de l’hydraulique (en relation avec le barrage situé dans la région de Yanfolila). Cette conférence se situait dans le cadre de la politique de décentralisation.
Cette émission de vingt minutes retransmet les intervention du maire, du facilitateur du projet, ainsi que d’une participante et d’un participant à la conférence.
Elle est animée par Mme Dicko, journaliste à Radio Wassoulou. C’est elle-même en compagnie d’un technicien de la radio, qui a monté cette émission au cours de la formation dispensée par notre volontaire.