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Burundi became independent in 1962. Since independence, Bujumbura has been the scene of frequent fighting
between the country's two main ethnic groups, with Hutu militias opposing the Tutsi-dominated Burundi army
CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES.
 MOBILE PHONES AND INTERNET IN LATIN AMERICA AND AFRICA: What
 benefits for the most disadvantaged in EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY AND
                CENTRAL AFRICA: Burundi and RDC-Congo?

              (ASASS-BURUNDI)a.s.b.l
                                                       -Sanitaire
              POBOX: 6564 BUJUMBURA-BURUNDI
              Tel: +254 77 763651
              Email: info@healthwelfarework.org
              www.healthwelfarework.org
                                 Presentation by: Jean-Claude
                                             KAMWENUBUSA
23 -24 0ctober 2009 BARCELONA
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displacement,I am back to Buterere Community. I feel
After having lived through the tragedy of war and

that this is my home, where my heart beats. JCK




                                                       Since 1997,
                                                       volunteers young students and
                                                       Adult professionals who are
                                                       Currently members of ASASS-BURUNDI promote ICT computer connected
                                                        to internet in urban cities and ICT mobile phone powered by DIY SOLAR
                                                       small pv panels, in rural ereas where there are no electricity, to connect and
                                                       collaborate with professors, Institutors, students and involve people in
                                                       these two different communities (URBAN & RURAL) for sustainable
                                                       development and MDGs goal supporting in Burundi and RDC Congo.
                                                        !"#"$%& "$&'(#)&*+ %('(,-./($* .#-0#1/ 2 *(#&/!(#(
                                                        "$&'(#)&*+3 4"/1$ 151#% "$&'(#)1, )64--, -7 !"#"$%& 8
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                                                                     We believe that Technologies,
                                                                     Information and communication
                                                                     (ICT) are key tools to promote a
                              if you could neither write nor read




                                                                     Better World For All (ABW4ALL),
                                                                     peace,      self-reliance    and
                                                                     sustainable development over the
What your life would be ...




                                                                     world.

                                                                     We recognise that an Africa without
                                                                     a sustainable, strong knowledge,
                                                                     connectedness, cooperation on
                                                                     sustainable development programs
                                                                     worldwide of its own will always
                                                                     remain in a dangerously dependent
                                                                     position.




                                                                    23,October 2009, Barcelona conference.
!"#$%&"#"'()*+,-(./,01(2-34506,7(89:;;7
 Training workshop of students members of TERIMBERE, in collaboration
   with Student Association of ICT promotion in University of Burundi.




Barcelona Conference 2009
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67% Burundians living with less than US$ 1 per day




                                                                           Since the long and turbulent history, the African many people, especially in Burundi have no
                                                                           formal or informal capital and people have less capital, especially in ICT KWOWLEDGE,
                                                                           SKILLS AND IN CAPITAL ECONOMIC to sustain their survival as a nation.
                                                                            In this context, education has been always considered by African, as the one prerequisite
                                                     97% in Buterere




                                                                           not only for nation building, but also for achieving a genuine and sustainable peace, cultural,
                                                                           social and global arts needs. Since the establishment of Association for solidarity, Health
                                                                           and social assistance (ASASS-Burundi), has commit it self to reform the inherited education
                                                                           and socio-economic development system with the aim to of promoting ICT, assist the
                                                                           preparation of the African, particularly Burundian citizens towards sustainable living
                                                                           standards in a democratic society, through the application of ICT Mobile technologies in
                                                                           rural areas and ICT computers connected to the Internet in urban communities.

                                                                           Burundi as other many countries of Africa, recognize education deterioration due to the war
                                                                           and social conflicts, so there is an urgent need of improving                 EDUCATION,
                                                                           TEACHING AND LEARNING, INCREASING UNIVERSITY AND HIGH EDUCATION
                                                                           PROGRAMES IN THE COMMUNITIES OF AFRICA where quality education services are
                                                                           less accessible, not affordable, less developed or improved and where academic rate
                                                                           attendance is low because of several issues surrounding it: poverty, lack of qualified
                                                                           human resources, ICT, infrastructures and financial as well as other fundamental
                                                                           needs for development.
                                                                       Barcelona Conference on ICT and Development
Furthermore, service learning and education services are provided in inequality, for
example, Education in Burundi reaches only a limited portion of the population: only
43% of adults are literate (53% males versus 32% of females), due to the civil war
occurred since1993-2005 which destroyed pedagogic and economic infrastructures.

Recognizing that in industrial transforming civilized world, there is a vast economic,
social and political change.

As we step forward into the information Age, we face the very real challenge of
redirecting the decades of African higher education, making Information,
Communication and Technologies (ICT) accessible, be used by all, so that youth must
be ready to struggle with the demands of the new global economy, the new realities
facing government, news daily information human rights needs and the new
challenges of a multicultural world.
!"#$%&'(()!
    ASASS-BURUNDI though TERIMBERE SOCIETY, HUMAN AWARD UNIVERSAL
    SCHOOL program, tied a partnership with IWITH FOUNDATION www.iwith.org, to
    Improving access to the higher education and lifelong learning, the major priority of
    the Governments of East African Community countries, especially the Burundi country.

    ASASS-Burundi has been expanded the services                of the MOBILE PHONE
    Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) AND the access to ICT
    COMPUTERS connected to the Internet              in Burundi and in the International
    communities, for the development of the local communities and the improvement of
    the social and economic situation of the people.

    Since 2008, in partnership with IWITH FOUNDATION, ASASS-BURUNDI has
    undertaken a program of education, research and communication with the
    technologies support by WITH.ORG.

    Through the ONLINE CAMPUS                     GENERATION EDUCATION
    (AGE MISSION), ASASS-Burundi has planned to launch academic e-courses and life
    training programs for human resources and various responsible in Africa, to ensure a
    sustainable partnership with ICT industries for economic development and innovation
    in education and Information Technologies solutions for all through pedagogical
    techniques empowerment by Information and technologies that catalyse economic
    and social development, path to 2015.


Barcelona Conference on ICT and Development
With ICT mobile phone and Computer:
- Professionnels in ASASS-Burundi, through TERIMBERE Human
  Award Universal School program, Collaborate via ICT MOBILE
  PHONES, SMS mobile phones exchange to plan curricula, adopte
  and amendate documents with the consultation of rural people of the
  communities of Burundi within north provinces of Burundi where
  there are major social, health and economic problems.

- With simple ICT mobile phone, people in wherever they are,
  everywhere they go and at anytime, in Burundi and worldwide, take
  part in communities Development small programs Managment,
  planning, Implementation and evaluation and Counselling (E.g:
  Mobile Psychosocial Counselling on HIV/AIDS, Trauma Healing,
  Children urgence consultation via telephone ) in Buterere
  Community Development Centre( BCDC) of ASASS-Burundi
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Ramon Bartomeus
          ramon@iwith.org
                                       The end,
                                       Thank you
   Thank you for your attention :)

  If you want more information or
networking, please ask or e-mail me.

     More info:
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