The Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade denounced the "promises" not required by the EU, the World Bank and major IT groups to reduce the digital divide north-south, in an interview published by Liberation.
"We spent a lot of money in travel and conferences, but funding is too low, slow to come or are not honored, it must stop chasing promises," said Wade, saying "angry "In this interview published at the end of the first international conference on Digital Solidarity, held in Lyon (center-east).
"All these conferences, that's enough, the World Bank had promised us $ 1 billion (780 million euros) for digital, they are still waiting," he said.
"Seventeen countries participated (in the Global Digital Solidarity Fund launched in 2005 at the initiative of Senegal, ie) through contributions amounting to 300 000 per year, but apart from France, nobody contributed in the European Union. Too few countries, and almost any company, responded to our call, "he adds.
Objective: creation of clusters of massive retraining PC
"Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft, ie) realized that Africa was a large digital market and we had promised software education for our teachers," says Wade.
However, "digital is vital for our countries to the extent it is a powerful lever for transverse solve all the problems of development," said the Senegalese president. He believes that "urgent create massive chains of computer recycling for the southern countries", with the aim of providing "500 million computers in five years, including 500 000 from Europe" .
Companies in the sector "must help us collect computers and could, for example, finance transportation," he suggests.
The Global Digital Solidarity has 28 founding members, including 18 states like France and Senegal. It has funded since 2005 a score of projects with a total of 900 000.
"We spent a lot of money in travel and conferences, but funding is too low, slow to come or are not honored, it must stop chasing promises," said Wade, saying "angry "In this interview published at the end of the first international conference on Digital Solidarity, held in Lyon (center-east).
"All these conferences, that's enough, the World Bank had promised us $ 1 billion (780 million euros) for digital, they are still waiting," he said.
"Seventeen countries participated (in the Global Digital Solidarity Fund launched in 2005 at the initiative of Senegal, ie) through contributions amounting to 300 000 per year, but apart from France, nobody contributed in the European Union. Too few countries, and almost any company, responded to our call, "he adds.
Objective: creation of clusters of massive retraining PC
"Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft, ie) realized that Africa was a large digital market and we had promised software education for our teachers," says Wade.
However, "digital is vital for our countries to the extent it is a powerful lever for transverse solve all the problems of development," said the Senegalese president. He believes that "urgent create massive chains of computer recycling for the southern countries", with the aim of providing "500 million computers in five years, including 500 000 from Europe" .
Companies in the sector "must help us collect computers and could, for example, finance transportation," he suggests.
The Global Digital Solidarity has 28 founding members, including 18 states like France and Senegal. It has funded since 2005 a score of projects with a total of 900 000.
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