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Mozambique has decided to grant for its ten-year strategy on science, technology and innovation: the highest priority to the development of community multimedia centers throughout the country. In Mozambique, the population has only a small number of access points to ICTs. The situation is that of equipment under this plan there. The fact is that sites in the Associated Schools Network, the documentary digital provincial centers and community multimedia centers offer access points to a small number of people.


The development of these centers across the country must be a priority, insofar as these centers are the spearheads of ICT in all regions of Mozambique. The strategy adopted by Mozambique also stresses the need to find innovative mechanisms for access and low-cost suppliers in order to preserve the sustainability initiatives for knowledge carried out in rural areas. The objective of UNESCO is there in the field of CMC, a successful integration of traditional media and new technologies with sites of communication and information such as libraries and documentation centers on the development level Community. It is necessary to identify associations between innovative technologies and modern digital technologies conventional low-cost, involving for example access to the Internet broadcast technology. Based on the good results of CMC pilots in two dozen countries, including Mozambique, is in 2004 that the Government, UNESCO and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation launched the initiative for the development of CMC in Africa, in order to extend the success of the pilot CMC to all these three countries - greater impact and establish a viable over the long term by establishing a national network dynamics and reaching a critical mass of sites in each country, developing the geographical coverage and touching more people, especially in remote areas. There are currently 16 CMC in Mozambique, six others to open their doors before the end of 2006. Other key partners include the Centro Informatics Universidad Eduardo Mondale (CIUEM) and the Forum of Community Radio Mozambique, and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the international programmed telecentre.org, Microsoft, One World and the Open Knowledge Network, AIDS and the UNDP.