my congratulations about your participation;It's very interesting to hear you;
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journal spécialisé Agropasteur à dakar
sénégal
formateur en Ntic et internet en milieu décentralisé/NTIC et Pastoralisme
>From: "klohento@panos-ao.org" <klohento@panos-ao.org>
>To: ipr-ict@cipaco.org
>Subject: [ipr-ict] FRENCH synthesis last mails (Bandé M Sissoko, Adamou Iro, Achille Kouawo, Papou Kponton, Mawaki Chango)
>Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 22:48:21 +0200
>
>Barnabé Affougnon and Seydina's mails will soon be translated and
>sent to you.
>----
>
>>From Bandé Moussa Sissoko,
>
>Mr Sissoko, journalist (daily newspaper L'Essor, Mali) writes to say
>that he is enjoying the discussions. He leads the association of
>Malian Journalists using English as working language (Union des
>Journalistes Maliens d'_expression_ Anglaise - UJMEA); he is member of
>the National Journalist
Union.
>
>----
>
>From Adamou Iro
>
>Adamou Iro, a_iro@yahoo.fr <mailto:a_iro@yahoo.fr> from Niger,
>lawyer and manager, affirms that IPR ICT issues are not known in his
>country by lawyers. The existing legal instrument on copyright has
>been adopted under the lobbying of the musician association and does
>not include issues like the protection of computer software. He said
>that the new high committee on ICTs just created by the Prime
>Minister will work on information society legal issues. He will have
>to contact WIPO in this regard. According to him a regional approach
>should be better efficient.
>
>---
>
>From Achille Kouawo
>
>Achille Kouawo, kouawo@clapnoir.org <mailto:kouawo@clapnoir.org>,
>journalist in Niger, and chief
editor of the webzine Clapnoir
>www.clapnoir.org <http://www.clapnoir.org> thanked contributors of
>the debate. He said we have to be convinced that Africa will
>participate in the information society, and that even if there is
>not a political will, the practical actions undertaken by some
>stakeholders would be a driving factor. Human resources are
>available, more and more stakeholders are integrating ICTs in their
>activities; he said content creation is the key factor of the
>information society. Regarding IPRs, he said creators are more and
>more aware of their rights due to the information circulating on the
>internet. But according to him, copyright bureaux in Africa need to
>communicate better on their work. People are not informed of what
>their activities and on the internet there is not
much information
>on them. Informing people and target audiences should therefore be a
>priority. Action should follow.
>
>----
>
>>From Papou Kponton
>
>Papou Kponton, papoulov@yahoo.fr <mailto:papoulov@yahoo.fr>
>journalist from Togo, wrote to inform us that ICT are stagnating in
>Togo, a country which was one of the pioneers in West Africa in this
>domain. He thinks it's mainly due the government disinterest and
>thus Togo does not have an ICT policy. He hopes that with the
>continued effort and lobbying of the private sector (which has
>created a great number of cybercafés in the countries). He said
>journalists should play an important role to raised awareness on
>these issues. He just participated in a training co-organized by the
>Panos Institute West Africa on
ICT issues.
>
>---
>
>From Mawaki Chango
>
>Mawaki Chango, voodoojazz@gmail.com <mailto:voodoojazz@gmail.com>
>apologized for replying to a contribution not focussing on the issue
>dealt with by the current debate but confirmed Mr Kponton's opinion.
>He mainly regrets the high cost of the internet in the country. He
>promises to contribute on IPR debate in a next mail.
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