The Field trips to officially start RE-ACT Improvement Actions in the 9 CMCs that agreed to participate in our project will start soon! Salomão David and me (Sara Vannini) are leaving already tomorrow to visit Chiure, Cuamba, Ilha de Moçambique, Sussundenga, Dondo, Chitima, Xinavane, Quelimane and Morrumbene in this order. We foresee to start tomorrow and to be back in Maputo on June 10th. We’ll keep you posted as much as possible along the days!
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The directors of the CMCs of Chitima, Chiure, Cuamba, Dondo, Ilha de Mocambique, Morrumbene, Quelimane, Sussundenga and Xinavane met the RE-ACT team for a Workshop in Maputo on Tuesday and Wednesday 24 and 25 April 2012. The aim of the Workshop was both to present the first results of the interviews we conducted last year during our visits to all of them, and to co-design with them the improvement actions we are going to implement in their CMCs during the next one year and a half, until the end of the project. The Workshop was as much interactive as possible. Directors engaged in two different group works along the days: the first one was aimed at discussing the pictures collected during a part of the interviews; the second one was aimed at imagining improvement actions by starting from their own community needs.
Finally, each director discussed individually with the RE-ACT team the improvement action his CMC will engage into: four will have courses specifically designed for schools and young people, two will take a maintenance course, two will implement a platform for their community and one will create a cinema.
Secondly, we will work together to co-design the improvement actions for each CMC, which will lead us on the second phase of the project. Here you can find the REACT_Workshop_Final_Program. Half of the RE-ACT team was at the great ICTD 2012 Conference in Atlanta (USA) last week, where we presented the Open Session “Photo Elicitation Techniques to Support Research Projects in the Communities”. Below you can find the preentation we used in the second half of our session, showing how we applied Photo Elicitation techniques in our project. The White Paper “Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique: a Map”, edited by: Isabella Rega and Lorenzo Cantoni and researched by Sara Vannini, Salomão David, Alexandre Baia and Gertrudes Macueve, has now been published! The paper presents the history, typologies and number of Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique, as well as the description of a sample of 10 of them, one per each province of the country and can be freely downloaded from the NewMinE Lab website. Our colleague of the Mozambican team, Salomão David, went back to Maputo at the end of last week after spending 4 months in Lugano to attend some PhD courses and to work with Prof. Cantoni, Isabella and me. These months have been labour-intense and proficuos, and still a lot of work has to be done together! But fortunately we have Skype, Gdocs, Dropbox… ! Happy warm summer in Mozambique, David! Here we provide a map of the existing CMCs in Mozambique (updated August 2011): This map show the number and location of the 34 Community Multimedia Centres that now exist in the country. The CMCs pointed in red are the ones included in our sample. To be noticed is that the Ministry of Science and Technology of Mozambique is now implementing new CMCs: Its goal is to reach all the districts of the country in the next years. The map, therefore, is not to be considered definitive!
As promised, we are back to update you about our interviews status analysis. We currently have coded approximately 28% of the total number of hours of interviews (110+). We started by codifying the data from the interviews to the people of the communities who don’t use the telecentre part the CMC (which includes services as computers, photocopies, fax, etc.) and do listen to the Community Radio, the ones that are pure non-users (people who do not listen even to the radio), very few in fact, and Staff Members. Gaining familiarity with NVivo 9 was certainly an issue in slowing down our process. We think, anyways, that it will have been worth when we will have to run queries on our dataset! RE-ACT is also on this Autumn number of Square!  RE-ACT is on Square! On the website of RSI you can listen to the interview of Prof. Cantoni and Dr. Isabella Rega about RE-ACT and how technologies can help social, economic and political development of a country (in Italian). |
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