The Yam Pukri youth forum
Nov 22 2004, Burkina Faso [BF]
Sylvestre Ouédraogo describes how a youth forum on the Internet is broadening the horizons of young people throughout Burkina Faso.
Yam Pukri, an organization dedicated to familiarizing young people in Burkina Faso with computers and the Internet, together with the Swiss NGO Terre des Hommes, recently launched a youth forum on the Internet.
The purpose of the forum is to enable young people living in different countries and contexts to communicate, to share their experiences, and to enhance their knowledge of others and the world at large.
The Yam Pukri youth forum project is unique in that they combine traditional and new technologies, as necessary, to enable students who do not have access to a computer to take part. The messages they receive are printed out or viewed on screen and the students can respond in writing on paper. The students can therefore concentrate on the content, while the technical team takes care of the data processing and sending the messages over the Internet. With this system, even young people who live in villages where there are no phone lines or Internet connections can participate in the forum.
Read the whole article on the ICT Update section of CTA's website http://ictupdate.cta.int/index.php/article/view/401
More on this youth forum in French can be found at Burkina NTIC http://www.burkina-ntic.org/repor1.php3?id_article=357
Visit the Yam Pukri youth forum.