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Some pictures of cyber

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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Habits Burkina

I keep my little insight on local customs basing myself on what I saw every day for over two weeks. I think the most surprising thing when you land from Europe and expect to see a country (very) poor, it was the allure of Burkina Faso for new technologies. As written in a previous post, e PCR is often full and people come mainly check emails, chat via Windows Live Messenger or equivalent, but also look for information on university courses in Europe or Canada. Moreover, many people who come to register to attend training at the office and Internet. The Burkinabe all have a cell phone, much like in France, unlike that they contain 2 SIM cards and they often have several, for the three operators' networks which share the market and make the most reductions. On television, these operators are, with sellers of motorcycles, by far the biggest advertisers.

On TV, it seems that most Burkinabe receive, in addition to the national chain RTB, at least some channels pan. Program these channels: news, TV shows and reality-TV-novelas, these serials rosewater Brazilian style of Dallas or Santa Barbara and poorly clad, whom they love. It's very amusing to see the crowd in front of the bar located right next to the cyber, which has a tiny black and white TV at the time of broadcast tele-novelas "The Two Sides of Ana. The television news in the African countries have little to do with those we know in Europe almost exclusively local or regional news, and positive! The president did this, the government has done such meeting took place ... But apparently the Burkinabe (and Africans in general) are not fooled by the lack of objectivity strings of power. A notable exception is a program interview policy which takes place every Sunday on national television in Burkina Faso, RTB, and led by the youthful director of programs. Last Sunday, he has manhandled the minister of the environment through its incisive questions as I have rarely seen a French journalist to do! The press it seems relatively free in Burkina Faso and the Burkinabe are indeed proud. The local newspaper, called the Observer Paalga, opened its pages to such widely different views, and reviews or editorials always spare no power. This does not seem to be the case in countries around the prize going to the distressing television national of Niger (where the president recently held a referendum to assume full powers) and Cameroon.

Other interests of Burkina Faso: sport, especially football. Nearly half of men and boys I meet wear a jersey of a football team. Both teams are currently the most popular Chelsea, whose star player is the Ivorian Didier Drogba, revered here (Burkina Faso has a special relationship with their neighboring Ivory Coast, particularly since the mass emigration of nearly 6 million of them to that country - so there are now about 10 million inhabitants Burkina Faso and 18 in Côte d'Ivoire ...), and Barcelona, who until this summer's roster included another local hero, the son Samuel Eto'o. Then come Real Madrid and Olympique Marseille. But any male follows Burkina championships English, English and French and therefore also knows the other teams! In my case, the players where I wear my jersey of FC Barcelona, I'm sure I entitled to a few friendly remarks about this.

I have not seen so far Ouagalais of playing cards (I'll try to find a game and the time to learn the coinche before leaving!), Or the awalé. However, I have seen play checkers, and a game similar to Ludo. They play many games, scratch and LONAB (National Lottery of Burkina Faso, the French equivalent of the Games) is thriving. The PMU seems to work well here, but since there is no racetrack in the country, players are betting on French races.

Finally, I conclude with a habit that I quickly adopted: the ritual of mint tea (boil three times before serving!), Sometimes accompanied by peanuts, which is an excuse to long hours of discussion friends quietly installed in the shade of a tree.

soon!