Good news: my camera was delivered to work! And without that I do not touch anything ...
Here, then, to illustrate just this blog, some pictures of cyber PCR, in which I spend much of my time ...
The building housing the internet. It is leased by the ACP, which is not the owner. To the left of the building is a public water pump, and a bar on the right.
View from the terrace on the street (recently paved !).
The sign at the entrance of cyber, with prices (1000 = CFAF 1.5 €). Cheapest Ouaga!
The room, view from the front desk (located on the left when entering).
The room, view from the right window. Of the 11 machines for the public, only 5 are connected to the Internet, because of the low overall throughput. The others are reserved for training, or for people who want to do office automation.
Details training to the desktop and the Internet.
Reflection.
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Response to Fabrice (thank you for your questions still highly relevant, they allow me to complete!):
customers are mainly young people, schoolchildren, students and young workers. There are also some kids (well seemingly resourceful!) And also some older, some thirty or forty years.
There is everything in "knowledge" in computer science: the curious who discover what a screen and keyboard and mastered in 3 days bases, others who have the desire but are afraid of breaking everything (especially girls, my fellow teachers of computer science faculty as human Doms know that), people who are doing well and surf the web as any European, etc.. Most make mistakes in French sometimes rather crude, but we must not forget that it is not their native language.
An important point: there is no Ibo who comes to cyber. The Igbos are an ethnic group in Nigeria that specializes in Internet fraud (and all other kinds of scams), from what I heard from people here. Mostly they spend their days a cyber squatter to do their "business" (sending spam, etc.).. The cyber to leave, probably because it makes them good customers. Here is a cyber-profit, so the CPA reserves the right to filter sites and allowed to monitor what customers are: an Ibo who would do something dishonest would undoubtedly hunted mercilessly, because the goal of the association is to facilitate access to information in more disadvantaged.
Illiteracy affects a class of people who do not come to cyber. In this sense, I have a skewed view of reality in Burkina Faso, although Mahamadi took care of me to meet many people, including illiterate family (aunts and cousins). But as they do not speak French, the discussion is difficult.
equipment was donated by a French organization, "Dunes Leeward. It seems that it is the old PC to the university of Toulouse MIAS. These are Pentium 4 with Windows XP, except the machine that acts as a server, which is a P3 ... and raaaame ... No flat screen, but they would like. For licenses, they are in the name of the university of Toulouse MIAS.
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