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  Eric Flamme

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  New IT-Initiatives for West-Africa (francophone and anglophone states)

  I appreciate this forum if it can lead us to new IT-initiatives for francophone and anglophone states in West-Africa.
  
  Those who know more than the official europeen press of what is RALLY GOING ON - for example in Ivory Coast - would perhaps share my opinion: in the future we COULD have big changes on behave of politics and development.
  
  The south-african President, Thabo Mbeki, shows this at the moment in a very impressing and brave way.
  
  That is the reason why I would like to draw your attention to SAFRI (Southern African Initiative) of the German government: in the year 2000, more than 700 entrepreneurs and politicians from Germany and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) attended the Africa Business Forum in Berlin to discuss the economic potential of the region. I have documents about this and would email them to those who are interested in similar initiatives for the construction of PANAFRICAN NETWORKS in IT-Technology - implicating also francophone states (= a TABOU until now as a result of narrow minded and anxious french politics towards "former" colonies as well as the famous "conference of Berlin" - distributing "zones of influence" for rich nations like France).
  
  A panafrican IT-initiative could be one of the solutions for France but, and this is more important for me, for Africa itself!
  
  Africa needs peace, Africa needs real development. Those who contribute to IT will contribute to affordable communication, so one of the most important basis to break the "silence of isolation", misery and absence of widespread projects.
  
  Sincerefully
  
  Eric Flamme
  (eflamme@web.de, 0033-6-22-74-19-13)
  
  • 14 Jun 2005, 9:48 pm
  Eric Flamme wrote: > I appreciate this forum if it can lead us to new IT-initiatives for > francophone and anglophone states in West-Africa. > > Those who know more than the official europeen press of what is RALLY > GOING ON - for example in Ivory Coast - would perhaps share my > opinion: in the future we COULD have big changes on behave of > politics and development. > > The south-african President, Thabo Mbeki, shows this at the moment in > a very impressing and brave way. > > That is the reason why I would like to draw your attention to SAFRI > (Southern African Initiative) of the German government: in the year > 2000, more than 700 entrepreneurs and politicians from Germany and > the Southern African Development Community (SADC) attended the Africa > Business Forum in Berlin to discuss the economic potential of the > region. I have documents about this and would email them to those who > are interested in similar initiatives for the construction of > PANAFRICAN NETWORKS in IT-Technology - implicating also francophone > states (= a TABOU until now as a result of narrow minded and anxious > french politics towards "former" colonies as well as the famous > "conference of Berlin" - distributing "zones of influence" for rich > nations like France). > > A panafrican IT-initiative could be one of the solutions for France > but, and this is more important for me, for Africa itself! > > Africa needs peace, Africa needs real development. Those who > contribute to IT will contribute to affordable communication, so one > of the most important basis to break the "silence of isolation", > misery and absence of widespread projects. > > Sincerefully > > Eric Flamme > (eflamme@web.de, 0033-6-22-74-19-13)