Video training is paying off

Today I received a mail from Sylvestre Ouedraogo, the coordinator of the Burkina-ntic network in Burkina Faso. He’s been uploading video’s they have recently made on YouTube. Bad as the connection is here in Bamako, I can view images of farmers using ICTs in Leo, the latest TV-Koodo film on the projects IICD supports in Burkina Faso, and even other stuff on traditional dances and on the reggae scene in Ouagadougou. It’s been only two months that we started to train our partners in Burkina on the use of this kind of multimedia tools, ant it already is starting to pay off! For me, this is one more proof that with relatively little effort and investment, ICT can gain access to worldwide audiences for people who have been relatively isolated up till recently. The empowerment that goes along with this access is hard to measure, but I can’t deny that I feel a lot of respect for the ones who are doing this under still difficult circumstances. Check it out on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFGH8YNClY (and click on More Videos from this Channel to watch the other films). Or go directly to the site: http://www.wagues.org/