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Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique: A Map

Lugano: New Mine Lab;New Media in Education Lab (2011), 13 pp.
"The Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs) visited vary consistently in resources and services they offer. The table below summarizes the services currently available at each of the presented venues: Community radio and photocopies are always present; ICTs courses are also very present, except, at the moment, in Chitima, Dondo and Ilha de Mocambique; Each venue, then, differ for a number of different service specific to the place, ranging from scanning, printing and fax facilities, to television signal, language and civic education courses, cinema and local newspaper; Finally, the Internet is available for the public just in 2 out of the 10 CMCs." (Conclusion, page 11)
"Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs) in Mozambique have been setup for a decade and represent the most common model of public access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) venues in the country. This report briefly presents the history and typologies of CMCs in Mozambique, as well as an updated map of their current number and location. Finally, it casts a closer look to a sample of 10 CMCs, one per each province of the country, describing their context, cluster of services, technical instruments, group of people who manages CMCs and people who access them. The information provided on the paper has been collected mostly in March – April 2011 within the field work of the project RE-ACT: social REpresentations of community multimedia centres and ACTions for improvement, a research and development project run by the NewMinE Lab: New Media in Education Laboratory of the Università della Svizzera italiana, University of Lugano, Switzerland, in collaboration with the Centre for African Studies and the Department of Mathemathics and Informatics of the University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique." (Executive Summary)
Setting the Scene, 3
CMCs in Mozambique, 4
A Closer View to 10 CMCs, 5
Future Perspectives, 11
Conclusion, 11