Internet em Moçambique, Television Program and Video
The World Bank's Electronic Media Center, led by Peter Knight, with financial support from the Africa Region of the World Bank and
from UNDP's Sustainable Development Networking Program and with intellectual support
from the Informatics Center of Eduardo Mondlane University, contracted with
PROMARTE, a Mozambican production company, to produce the video. Peter Knight
assisted in the script writing and conduct of video interviews in
Mozambique. The video features interviews with Mozambique's top political, academic, and telecommunications
leaders discussing the role of the Internet in Mozambique's development. Copies in both broadcast quality (Betacam SP) and VHS are available in Portuguese and in
English from the World Bank's Film and Video
Unit (Do a search on Film Library).
Here are a few frames from the video.
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President of Mozambique, Joaquim Chissano, explains the importance of the
Internet for Mozambique's economic, social, and political development. |
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Director of the Informatics Center at Eduardo Mondlane University, and "father"
of the Mozambican Internet, Venâncio Massingue. |
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President of the Community Development Foundation and widow of the
liberation leader Samora Machel, Graça Machel explains the importance of the Internet
for democratization, decentralization, and scientific-technological development. |
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Producer and cameraman Chico Carneiro shoots visit of Mozambican Ministerof Environment Bernardo Ferraz to Informatics Center atEduardo Mondlane University. Américo Muchango explains the World Wide Web. |
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Children, Mozambique's future, play on an abandoned tank recalling the recentcivil war which the country wants to forget, with satellite antennas in thebackground representing the international connectivity offered by the Internet.This is the final scene from the video. |
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