Full coverage: Mali

21.12.2005 The final report for the USAID funded Mali CLIC project is now
available.

09.09.2005 The village is nice, sprawling alongside a river with a couple of trees and the dunes behind it. But it is hot, very hot, even in the rainy season. It was a refreshing sensation to feel the light wind blow in Tombouctou at 40°C ...

07.07.2005 What do dot-ORG projects in Mali, Brazil, Macedonia and Uganda have in common beyond the fact that they all involve the provision of some form of information technology?

27.06.2005 UNESCO this week installed the first of the new community multimedia centres it is establishing in Mali as part of a scale-up initiative also involving Mozambique and Senegal

06.06.2005 "We welcome the opportunity to use this research methodology – for the first time in Africa – as we think that it will be an important tool in providing better access to new information and communication technologies,” said Monsieur Adama Kansaye,the prefect of Koutiala, during the inauguration of a workshop on ethnographic action research.

15.02.2005 Twenty participants from radio stations across Mali recently learned how they can better use the Internet in their work--including how to add stories to their own websites--during a recent Geekcorps training in Bamako.

07.12.2004 The IICD telecentre pilot project started in Mali in 2002. According to the analysis, while local expertise has done away with technological problems, the international evaluators are working on a financial strategy to reduce dependence on heavy donor funding.

16.11.2004 A suitcase radio in Timbuktu, Mali, that helped people fight a locust attack will be able to reach and involve larger communities. The Unesco has replaced its 30-watt transmitter with a 100-watt unit that will increase the reach by three times.

27.09.2004 MaliÂ’s war against locusts swarming its crop fields is being fought from a suitcase. The Unesco-donated mobile radio transmitter is being used to broadcast messages, which are then being retransmitted on the four radio stations in Timbuktu. With government resources not enough to reach communities, this radio is helping mobilise people.

16.01.2004 A young IT specialist working with GeekCorps, global volunteers dedicated to overcoming the digital divide, traveled this week from Canada to Mali to help the country's provide wireless technology to community radio stations and information centers.

17.12.2003 Presidents of Senegal, Mali and Mozambique have commended UNESCO's Community Media Centres (CMC) project which has been piloted in their countries. The heads of state made their comments at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva during an event organised by UNESCO to launch the scaling up of CMC's in the three countries.

08.09.2003 Even small African markets like Mali are beginning to experience the impact of competition in the telecommunications industry. It is slow and uneven but it is beginning to happen. Balancing Act Africa focussed on developments in MaliÂ’s ICT sector in a recent issue of its newsletter.

31.07.2003 The African Information Society Initiative has launched a new radio series Dialogue on Digital Dividends in Africa. The series, which recently won the 2003 New York Festivals Awards, looks at the state of ICTs in Ghana, Mali and Uganda and is available for download from its Website.

25.06.2003 Mali is formalising a national strategy to make ICTs and other digital tools available to all sections of society at affordable costs. The new technologies will be used to modernise sectors such as public administration, health, education, business, farming and culture.

20.10.2002 Uganda has been elected as one of Africa's representatives on the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council. The Council is the Union's supreme administrative organ and is responsible for policies that include spectrum regulation for telecom and Internet applications. Other African countries that have been elected are: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, Mali, Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Algeria, Burkina Faso and Cameroon.

03.07.2002 The name Timbuktu may still conjure up the image of mythical remoteness. Yet, this historic crossroads for the nomads on the edge of the Sahara, is slowly, but surely, joining the global information society.