While reading a general dossier about Web 2.0 in Spore the CTA’s information bulletin I came over the short, but very interesting article “Field report from Cameroon”.

Very briefly the platform www.riddac.org is presented (which won the RFI Net Afrique price in 2006 for the best African Website). François Ossama launched RIDDAC, a network for information on sustainable development in Central Africa in 1999. He set up the website to circulate and exchange information on environmental issues.

But as he points out:

“…as time went on, we realised that a static website would not last long, since visitors who came to download a text would have no reason to come back to the site.”

The next logical step for him was to establish a blog on the website http://www.riddac.org/blogs/ . If you are going now there you will find some interesting posts about what is going on in Central Africa in the field of ICTs, development and environmental issues, legal framework discussions and much more. See for instance “Crimes contre l’environnement : La loi est dure mais il faut l’appliquer”

François also supports interested people to create their own blog and open in this way the discussion and information exchange. Unfortunately comments on the blog are very rare until now. People reading articles can vote if they found them interesting or not. Taking this as one possible indicator you can see that the site it quite frequented and also considered as informative. Just have a look and see for yourself!

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