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(original article in French by Harinjakahere)
As part of its formative activities for the transfer of technological knowledge in French-speaking developing countries, the International Organization of Francophonie (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie) through its Specialized Institute and the Malagasy Association of Open Source Software Users (AMUL) organized a workshop seminar on next-generation web technology for the Indian Ocean.

The OIF delegated the organization of the seminar to AMUL, who hosted this edition that started last Monday.

About 20 participants, web developers, university professors, college students and web professionals attended the workshop at the University of Antananarivo and were expecting a lot of this Ajax /Web 2.0 marathon training.

Douglas MBIANDOU led the workshop. He is a 31 years old computer engineer from the school of INSA Lyon. He is the technical director of the company Objis and also Chairman of the Club of Digital Solidarity.
Douglas MBIANDOU plays an important role in the development of materials for Francophone Africa thanks to his training at Objis. We will soon be a hundred Africans to have received free training thanks to his educational activities (“that’s 2500 Euro tax not included” my buddy says, smiling)

Originally from Cameroon, He travels between Paris and Dakar to try to minimize the digital gap between Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world.. He already trained regions in West Africa and Central Africa in web 2.0and now he does it for the Indian Ocean.

The classes were loaded with information and helped us understand the bases of Web 2.0 (from a developer perspective), optimizing products to the fullest thanks to various very useful tools and links that were made available to everyone. –To quote Patson famous phrase “ça c’est CADEAU “(and that is free GIFT)

As far as the participants I was looking forward to meeting, they were nice and showed a lot of solidarity. most of them are members of AMUL, four of us are from the company ORCHID-Systems (A company specialized in publishing softwares for microfinancing, and the first Malagasy company of its kind in this field), three more were from e-saina (a company specializing in the development of open source software and network installation). I also recognized the Malagasy blogger Andry Hialy aka Za Gasy which is both a member of the AMUL office and one of the most diligent student at the workshop.

We all hope to use what we have learned for development of the country. Personally, I hope to strengthen the training capacity of the Foko Blog Club and the development of FOKO. So many thanks to the Francophonie !
For more information, you can consult the website of AMUL (ps. the site is still inweb 1.0 format, but surely a big overhaul will be made after this training).
Cross-posted on Foko blog club.
(Photo credits to Harinjaka).

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