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Burkinabe Water and Sanitation Partner Sets Up Sustainable Internet Phone Centre: Sahel Solidarité, IICD’s water and sanitation partner in Burkina Faso, set up an internet calling centre where people can contact their relatives abroad. The centre also trains Burkinabe people living abroad how to use Skype.
Cartoons in Burkina Faso Inform Locals about ICT: A series of cartoons about using information and communication technologies are used in Burkina Faso to inform people in a funny way about computers and the internet. The hand painted cartoons were commissioned by Burkina Faso’s national ICT4D network Burkina NTIC, which is supported by IICD.
IICD Project Partner Receives Decoration of Knight of the Burkinabe Order of Merit: The President of the IICD-supported Burkinabe farmer organisation FEPPASI has been awarded one of Burkina Faso’s highest honours. Moussa Dagano received the decoration of Knight of the Burkinabe Order of Merit at the beginning of March 2010.
Burkinabe Teacher Becomes ICT Expert: He gives computer advice to his fellow-teachers and fixes broken printers. He also uses digital material to enrich his classes and by using a school blog he helped to set up a partnership with a French school. Through IICD-supported trainings, teacher Christophe Hien of Bogodogo College in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso is now an ICT expert at his school.
IICD and NComputing Collaborate to Boost Development in Africa and Latin-America Using Innovative Low-Cost ICT Solutions: IICD and NComputing Inc., the worldwide leader in low-cost computing, signed an agreement in December to cooperate to promote reliable low-cost ICT solutions among IICD’s partner organisations in Africa and Latin America.
Burkina Women’s Association Receives Honorary Medal for Community Radio: Pag la Yiri, a women’s association based in eastern Burkina Faso, received an honorary medal for its work in the Zabré region, particularly its community radio station. The medal, Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite Burkinabé, is one of the highest honorary medals awarded by the President.
‘Burkinabe Farmers Increased Their Crop Production By 800 Percent’: Minata Coulibaly is a communication officer for FEPPASI, an IICD-supported organisation that unites more than 8000 farmers in the province Sissili in Burkina Faso. Coulibaly was in the Netherlands last month for a short presentation about her organisation. Five questions for her about the organisation and the farmers FEPPASI supports.
Social Network Used to Prepare West African Forum on Agriculture and ICT: Burkina NTIC has launched a social network platform to prepare West Africa’s first regional forum on marketing agricultural products through ICT. The event will take place 23-25 November in Ouagadougou, and the platform will help deepen the discussions and share the outcomes with a wider international audience. Burkina NTIC is the national ICT for development network.
Burkinabe Women’s Association Launches First Radio Station in Zabré: Pag La Yiri, a women’s association in the region of Zabré, Burkina Faso, recently launched the Pag La Yiri radio station. The radio station reaches out to the local population of Zabré. Thus far they have been deprived of information since they have great difficulty receiving any radio or television programmes at all, let alone a radio station broadcasting in their own region and language. The radio station spreads information that benefits the 1.5 million people living in the area of Zabré such as information about health prevention programmes, market prices, new production methods, local politics and the like.
Community Radio Pag La Yiri: An Old Dream Coming True: Women’s organisation Pag La Yiri from Burkina Faso saw an old dream come true last month, when its community radio, after overcoming many technical and license problems, finally started to broadcast.
ICT for Education in Burkina Faso: This thematic brief describes the lessons learned from one of the IICD-supported projects in the Education sector.
Las TIC en la Educación en Burkina Faso: Este informe temático describe las lecciones aprendidas en uno de los proyectos que el IICD apoya en el sector de la educación.
Reaching more people in Burkina Faso with multimedia health education: With the help of digital tools such as solar-powered internet connection, portable computers and a beamer, the organisation Sahel Solidarité sets up health education sessions in remote villages in Burkina’s Northern area Bokin, reaching approximately 20,000 people.
Les TIC pour l’éducation au Burkina Faso: Le document actuel envisage de transmettre les leçons apprises de le projet "Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication pour l'Enseignement au Burkina Faso (TICE-Burkina)" soutenu par IICD.
Inventory of Innovative Farmer Advisory Services using ICTs: Currently, most farmers’ information is provided either by extension workers, through libraries or via websites. The number of extension workers has been going down while that of farmers has been growing hence the need for innovative information systems to address this gap.
Inter Access wins award for partnership with IICD: IICD private partner Inter Access has won the Computable Magazine Award for Most Socially Responsible ICT Company of the Year 2008. The Dutch IT consultancy received the nomination from the Dutch magazine for the support it has given, in partnership with IICD, to various ICT projects in Africa.
Burkinabe telecentres: 'United we stand': Providing farmers with information on how to improve their crops, parents with information on how to prevent diseases, and teachers with access to badly needed educational materials are just some of the practical ways in which Burkinabe telecentres have been helping the rural communities they serve.
Consultants Inter Access released for African development: Inter Access realised another ICT project in Burkina Faso. Senior consultants at Inter Access get the opportunity to address developing countries to contribute to its further development. Richard Uijen drew up a travel and mission report.
Using ICTs to develop local content for schools: What’s hot?: There are plenty of theories about how ICTs can be used to develop local content for schools in developing countries, but very few actual examples from the field. A group of 22 educational practitioners from IICD-supported projects that use ICT to develop local content were therefore invited to share their experiences in a 4-day Cross Country Learning Event (CCLE) in Accra, Ghana at the end of May.
Annual report 2007 now online!: We are pleased to present IICD’s first online annual report. With only a few clicks you will be able to read all about our work, results and impact in 2007.

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