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Randy Donné and ESSVA group were the first arrived at Mahamasina early on the morning on October 17th. It was a friday and Foko has sent formal invitation letters and it took a lot of hours on accounting to make more Foko attend the event. From Tamatave : Theo, Patrick and Cunie were waiting for us on the wrong gate ( at the stadium!) but at the right time and Rondro, Lomelle and Diana from Majunga were already in Tana. With the surprise visit of UN Club bloggers from March workshops and ICE, our army….ur….was composed by 35 bloggers and trainers  who came just for the fun of being together and introducing Free use of ICT to students. thousands of them came.

morning sessions when hundreds and hundreds of students came in the conference room we shared with the Ministry of Youth

We negociated with Goticom to get the entire Conference room for ourselves as Quartier Libre but ended up sharing the space with the ….Ministry of Youth and Sports! All day they projected spots on HIV prevention and on the dangers of internet. What should have been a great collaboration between young associations and the institution ended up with a noisy battle to win over the students interest.  Using our spirit of rebellion, we sent dizains of Foko wearing beautiful Foko t-shirts and Citizen Media tools to promote our activities and expose our professionalism and get students to our spot from the main hall.

Stéphane showing cameras and pictures on the screen to 6 year-old kids

As we already mentioned, we were supposed to give Free Citizen Media and web 2.0 workshops to the younger generation and were prepared with lots of powerpoints, demos and volunteers. We were waiting for our partners to make up for their promises and get free wifi connection (since we were used to Moov.mg and our amazing Barcamp experience). The 2 chip Orange Net connections installed on the only 2 computers were practically impossible to share between Quartier Libre 100 volunteers and if it wasn’t for our abilities to improvise and work collectively we would have failed our mission.

Cunie from Tamatave with teens interested in joigning the FBC after she teaches them to open an email account

BUT WE SUCCEEDED!

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