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Consultative Workshop

“Using ICT to strengthen youth opportunities in agriculture and rural areas”

Johannesburg, South Africa, 20th May 2012

Report

On the occasion of the second anniversary of the launch of the CTA’s ARDYIS project and the

organization of the prize giving ceremony of the YoBloCo Awards, a full day Consultative

Workshop was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 20, 2012.

The main objective of the meeting was to share experiences and practices on strengthening

youth opportunities in Agriculture and ICTs, in order to identify strategies and concrete actions

that the ARDYIS project and partners can work on.

CTA sponsored the participation of 26 people, including young agri-bloggers, development

practitioners and representatives of organizations involved in ICT for agricultural and rural

development. Many national and international organizations, both from the public and the

private sectors were represented at the workshop, including: CaFAN, ANAFE, ICT4D Jamaica,

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Yam-Pukri, SPC-PAFPNet, SangoNet, Organization of the African Youth, Conseil Régional

des Riziculteurs du Mono et du Couffo and Savannah Young Farmers Network1.

The workshop was live covered by participants, who shared their comments on Twitter and

coveritlive. The coverage results are available at this link:

http://tinyurl.com/ardyis-iaald-2012-live2

The workshop was structured into five thematic sessions2. It started with the opening remarks

of Mr Ken Lohento, programme coordinator of ARDYIS project, and Mr Sebastian

Chakeredza, representative of ANAFE and member of the ARDYIS advisory board, who

welcomed the participants.

Session I – YoBloCo Awards: presentation of selected blogs

The first session aimed at discussing about

the experience of young agri-bloggers and

started with the presentations delivered by

three participants of the YoBloCo Awards.

The first speaker, Mr Keron Bascombe, from

Trinidad and Tobago, presented his activity of

blogger for the Agribusiness Society of the

University of West Indies (ABS), winner of the

Institutional Category of the YoBloCo Awards

for the Caribbean. ABS is a student

organization established by the agricultural

students at UWI, that aims at widening the

scale of opportunities to develop agriculture

through agribusiness. Keron, who is the

executive of the organization as well as the creator/animator of the blog, highlighted the pivotal

role of the blog for information and communication, both to reach the local students and other

interested people from all over the world. Nevertheless, he pointed out a problem that affects

many agricultural bloggers: the lack of followers and, therefore, the difficulty of engaging them

in a two-way exchange about agricultural issues. That issue was highlighted also by the other

presentations and during the following discussion.

The following speaker was Ms Nawsheen Hosenally, 1st prize winner of the Individual

Category, who presented her blog “Nawsheen’s World”. The blog, active since 2010, had a

turning point in 2011, when Nawsheen had the possibility to attend a Web 2.0 Learning

Opportunity organized by CTA. Since that experience, Nawsheen started to consistently write

about agricultural issues in Mauritius and other countries. She highlighted the many benefits of

blogging. First of all, blogging has now become an integral part of her life, that even changed

the way she looks at things around her. For her now, every class, every meeting, every

experience she makes can be matter for a post, that can be shared and that people from all

1 See Annex 3 for details.

2 See Annex 2 for details.

Mr Peter Ballantyne, member of the YoBloCo Awards jury, facilitates session I.

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over the world can appreciate and comment on. Thanks to her blog she has the possibility to

widen her social network (which is having a positive impact on her job opportunities) and to

create her own online identity as a young expert in the agricultural sector. In fact, she also

stressed how the more she writes, the better her writing abilities get and the more she learns

about agriculture. The participation in the YoBloCo Awards was a boost for her to focus even

more on issues related with youth, agriculture and ICT use, and allowed her blog to reach a

much wider visibility. In support of this, she displayed some of her blog’s statistics, that

showed that visits to her blog increased significantly. Not surprisingly, the peak of accesses to

her blog coincided with the launch of the public evaluation.

The third speaker, Mr Emmanuel Anago

Codjo, presented the perspective of the

Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs de Mono-

Couffo (CRRMC), a farmers’ organization

based in Bénin. He explained that blogging is

one of the most important tools that his

organization uses to promote and develop its

business, along with village meetings,

electronic bulletins and other web 2.0 tools

like Facebook and Twitter. The blog is a way

to gain visibility both locally and regionally,

sharing information about their product and

their activities. Emmanuel reported that

blogging had a beneficial impact on his

organization, as it strengthens its networks and increased the collaboration with other

organizations and individuals. For example, the organization receives many requests for the

participation to conferences and the supervision of students of agriculture, as a consequence

of sharing relevant information about rice production. According to Emmanuel, for a farmers’

organization like CRRMC the biggest issue related to blogging is the lack of human resources

dedicated to maintain and update the blog, as well as getting all the members to actively

cooperate in writing articles. In fact, all bloggers agree that, although blogging is a very

rewarding activity, it also takes much time, and writing consistently can be very difficult.

After the three presentations, participants were engaged in a lively discussion about blogging

on agriculture, through questions and comments. One of the issues that drew more attention is

the relationship between the blogger and their readers. While most of the blogs that

participated in the YoBloCo Awards increased their visibility, there is still a lack of comments

from the readers. The bloggers reported that sometimes readers are reluctant to engage in a

public discussion commenting on a post, and they prefer a personal communication with the

author via Facebook or email. Therefore, a small number of comments is not necessarily a

synonym of the blog’s ineffectiveness.

In fact, all bloggers use and integrate a large number of web 2.0 tools in their online activity.

For example, Facebook and Twitter are powerful tools to promote blogs among the social

networks and to exchange contacts. The blogs, however, are the best place where they can

write original articles, share their experience and show their expertise. As Mr Krishan Bheenick

(CTA) pointed out during the discussion, bloggers are gaining popularity and credibility in the

sector of agriculture, as long as they prove their skills. Therefore, through their blogs youth can

Mr E. Codjo, Ms N. Hosenally and Mr K. Bascombe answer the questions of participants.

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build a strong and consistent online reputation, which has been proved to be a valuable asset,

for example, when searching for a job.

Session II – YoBloCo Awards: organization and perspectives

The second session was opened by Ms

Keeley Holder, representative of CaFAN and

facilitator of the session. She introduced the

presentation of Mr Giorgio Bellinzas, ICT4D

intern at CTA, that spoke about the

organization of the YoBloCo Awards and the

perspectives for the future of the competition.

He highlighted the aim of the competition and

its milestones, from its launch to the various

stages of the blogs’ evaluation. In particular,

he showed that more than 2000 users

participated in the public online evaluation

voting in the individual category and more

than 600 users commented on the institutional category. Giorgio further shared the results of a

survey undertaken on YoBloCo participants, which showed a first impact of the competition.

For example, almost half of the participant blogs were newly created. While it is still too soon

to know if participants will keep on blogging in the future, this is certainly a good measure of

the fact that the competition successfully engaged youth to take action and to start sharing

their knowledge through blogs. Respondents of the survey also consistently said that the

competition positively affected their ICT skills and their interest in agriculture. The competition

also significantly increased the visibility of their blogs, especially during the online evaluation

stage.

The presentation heated a long discussion, mostly concentrated on the perspective for next

years’ editions and how to handle the main challenges that were faced. In particular, the

organizers pointed out the scarce participation from some ACP regions, in particular

Caribbean, Pacific and Central Africa. The participants of the workshop agreed that a key

element in this regard is a more intense, diversified and localized promotion, that makes use of

many communication means, from the internet to the radio and printed newspapers and

bulletins. The engagement of local partners of the ARDYIS project, in this case, is extremely

important, as they can use their network to promote the contest. The face to face

communication should not be neglected as well, as many bloggers reported that they were

encouraged to take part in the competition by members of their family and friends.

Apart from a better promotion, the discussion pointed out how increasing the prizes for

winners can have a good impact, as well as giving a reward to all the participants/finalists (for

example, a certificate of participation or relevant material, such as CTA publications).

Moreover, participants agreed on the importance of increasing Web 2.0 skills for young

people. In this regard, the Web 2.0 Learning Opportunities organized by CTA have a high

reputation and participants suggested to strengthen these kinds of initiatives as they are

considered very effective.

Mr Giorgio Bellinzas (CTA).

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Other questions drew the attention of participants: how to promote agricultural blogs? How to

keep bloggers’ engagement after the competition? Many concrete actions have been

proposed in this regard. For example CTA can have a role in promoting relevant articles in

their websites and journals (e.g. ICT Update), and a web-based platform to collect articles

from participants of the YoBloCo Awards can be created.

A final question animated the end of the session: how blogs are actually reaching the farmers?

It is in fact well recognized that, due to several factors (e.g. lack of connectivity in rural areas,

lack of skills, illiteracy etc.) many farmers cannot directly benefit from the information published

in the Internet, nor they can write their own articles to share their experience and their

questions. In this regard, Ken Lohento emphasized the role of the farmers’ organization and

other collective actors, that have the capabilities and the network to share the content with

farmers and collect local knowledge from them. In light of this, the YoBloCo Awards

distinguished between individual and institutional category, that differed substantially. For

example, the latter received less entries (22, as against the 69 entries of the individual

category) and appointed three regional winners, for West Africa, East Africa and Caribbean,

that were awarded with a cash prize of 3,000 Euros each.

Session III – Presentation of ARDYIS Project’s activities (2010 - 2012)

The third session was aimed at presenting the

two years activities of the ARDYIS project,

and to discuss about its future perspectives. A

presentation was given by Ken Lohento, who

firstly talked about the work of CTA, with a

special focus on its ICT programme and the

activities aimed at increasing ACP youth

involvement in agriculture. Lohento presented

a worrisome reality, in which the agricultural

working population is aging and youth are less

and less interested in farming, as this

profession is often perceived as poorly

remunerative and appealing. However, he also

highlighted that there are full possibilities of reversing this trend, as not only agriculture needs

youth, but also the youth needs agriculture. In fact, agriculture is still the main source of

employment in most ACP countries, and the integration of ICTs is increasing job opportunities

throughout the various agricultural value-chains. Recognizing these new opportunities, CTA

launched many initiatives to engage youth in agriculture, encouraging, informing and training

them.

The presentation went on with a focus on the various activities undertaken in the ARDYIS

framework, along with key achievements and impact on youth. ARDYIS has a strong and

growing network of young persons involved in agriculture, who interact and exchange through

different online channels, such as the DGroup platform (two forums of discussion, in English

and in French), the ARDYIS website and Facebook page. ARDYIS is committed to a

continuative activity of information dissemination regarding youth opportunities in agriculture,

A moment of the workshop.

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and became a well recognized channel for such information. Moreover, the project organized

essay and blog competitions, supported many young persons in attending relevant

conferences and Web 2.0 trainings, and facilitated the production of an advocacy document

calling for stronger support for youth involvement in agriculture and ICT.

The conclusion of the presentation was dedicated to the future perspectives: first of all, the

ARDYIS project will more and more aim at working closely with youth organizations involved in

agriculture and rural development. ARDYIS will support projects proposed by youth

organizations, as long as these projects target youth in agriculture and ICT. In this regard,

CTA is currently giving priority to projects that have a regional scope. Increasing effort will be

also made to improve youth opportunities in rural areas, and to identify new ways to use ICT in

order to enhance youth involvement in agriculture. Finally, CTA is also working on the

development of a consistent strategy for youth, in which the experience matured within the

ARDYIS project will be highlighted.

All the participants welcomed the ARDYIS activities, and especially highlighted the role that

CTA can play in strengthening the networks and encouraging, supporting and facilitating youth

projects, as well as youth involvement in

advocacy and policy making. However, many

participants remarked how rural areas in

ACP countries still suffer from inadequate

infrastructures, especially when talking about

new ICT. Following a question about CTA’s

role in developing IT networks in the ACP

countries, Ken Lohento stressed that CTA is

not directly involved in the deployment of

infrastructures. Nevertheless, it strongly

advocates for a sound ICT policy, that takes

into account the needs of agriculture and

rural areas.

The session went on with the presentation of Mr Sylvestre Ouèdraogo, who discussed the role

of Yam Pukri, the organization he represents, in the Advisory Committee of the ARDYIS

project. Yam Pukri is an association established in 1998 and based in Ouagadougou, Burkina

Faso. It provides information, training and advice on the application of new technology in

various fields, including agriculture, and has been involved in many activities targeting youth.

Session IV – Partners’ experiences relating to youth involvement in ICT and

agriculture

The fourth session aimed at giving an overview of the experiences of current and potential

partners in dealing with youth involvement in ICT and agriculture. The discussion was opened

by Mr Matthew de Gale, Programme Manager at SANGONeT. This is a non-profit organization

based in South Africa, which works in the field of ICTs for agricultural and rural development.

Matthew presented two case studies based on the activity of SANGONeT as developer of

mobile applications for farmers, notably a recording system for cows lactation implemented in

Mr Sylvestre Ouèdraogo (Yam Pukri).

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East Africa and a market information system

implemented in Zambia. These case studies

also showed how ICTs in agriculture are

definitely a source of opportunities especially

for youth. For example, the lactation recording

system was first developed by a young ICT

graduate from Kenya, and the adoption of both

systems was strictly linked to the initial

engagement of young early adopters. His case

studies showed how young people are the

natural beneficiaries of new and innovative jobs

throughout the agricultural value chains, and

that ICTs can increment the status and

livelihoods of users.

Ms Anju Mangal, representing the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, gave a presentation

about the experience of her organization in increasing the participation of youth in agriculture

and ICTs. The Pacific region has specific issues, such as high youth unemployment rate,

economic instability, high incidence of natural disasters and lack of connectivity. To counteract

these issues, youth are key actors to look at, and they are therefore a priority for SPC that

carried out a series of initiatives, also in partnership with CTA and other agricultural institutions

such as FAO, including the use of blogs, market information systems and GIS systems for the

agricultural and rural development. Her presentation highlighted that we often run the risk of

considering ICTs more like a quick solution, rather than a tool to achieve real development.

The last presentation of this session was given by Ms Gracia Mulumba, of the Organization of

African Youth (OAY), an international NGO funded in 2009 and devoted to supporting youth

policy making, innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. She stressed that youth initiatives,

especially those linked with agriculture, must be sustained in many different ways by donors

and national governments: there is primarily a need for financial support, but also for capacity

building and for the development of entrepreneurial spirit. She also reminded the outcomes of

the African Youth Day Conference, held in November 2011. In that occasion, a series of

recommendations were made that called for the creation of a network of institutions to advise

and support youth.

Session V – Group discussions

The last session of the workshop was maybe the most challenging, but interesting as well.

Participants were organized into small groups of 5 to 7 persons, which independently

discussed about concrete possibilities to use ICTs in order to improve youth livelihoods and

opportunities in agriculture and rural areas. Groups animatedly discussed for more than one

hour, took notes and sketched their ideas on flipcharts until they found five concrete

suggestions to propose to the audience. The groups discussed around the thematic

“Improving opportunities for youth in agriculture with ICT” and “Improving livelihoods and

opportunities for youth in rural areas with ICT”. Apart from a general explanation of the

rationale of the project ideas, groups had to highlight which stakeholders and partners could

Mr Mattew de Gale (SANGONeT).

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be involved, the main inputs to be provided

and risks and opportunities to be taken into

account.

In this occasion youth proved themselves

to be well aware of their issues and their

needs and, based on that, they were able

to propose a set of well thought and smart

solutions. The representatives of the

various organizations present at the

workshop did not step back, but instead

constantly proposed their collaboration in

their field of expertise. For a presentation

of some of these actions and projects

recommendations, see Annex 1.

The need for information can be considered the common denominator of almost all the actions

proposed. All the groups pointed out at least a project idea aimed at sharing positive and

proactive information, such as highlighting success stories of youth engaged in agriculture and

ICTs, along with their challenges and how to overcome them. Youth pointed out their need for

inspiration and awareness raising about the many possibilities offered by agriculture and the

related use of ICT, as one of the main issues is still considered the widespread perception of

agriculture as a work for poor and aged people. In this sense, the participants stressed the

importance of gathering knowledge and best practices based on the experience in the local

contest.

The second most frequent issue that participants aimed to tackle was the lack of ICT skills in

young people from the ACP countries, especially those based in rural areas. Youth proposed

therefore the creation of new ICT trainings and the strengthening of the already established

ones, such as CTA’s Web 2.0 learning opportunities. Participants also highlighted the

importance of identifying the most appropriate ICT tools in this regard, and the majority of

them saw the mobile technology as the future (or, rather, the present) for the development of

agriculture.

After more than 10 hours of intense discussion, the workshop came to an end with the closing

remarks of Ken Lohento. He thanked the participants and whished the same success for the

IAALD conference that took place the days after.

Participants discuss about their project ideas.

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Annex 1 Examples of proposed actions and project ideas.

Concrete action/project idea Examples of potential partners/stakeholders

How to do this?

Decision making support Toolkit for young farmers to use across the value chain (Study/test/pilot on money making opportunities in Agriculture for youth).

CTA

SYFN

IFAD

FAO

National extension services

An ICT decision making Tool which is able to assist young farmers make the best decisions in their production process.

Document and share good practices in agriculture along the value-chain.

CTA

SYFN

MoFA etc.

Local ONGs

Production and dissemination of information through booklets, flyers, TV and radio shows etc. The use of ICT tools to document various best practices in Agriculture which will serve as motivation and attraction for the youth to actively be engaged in to Agriculture.

E-Literacy (Skills and training - ‘Right tools’)

SYFN

CTA

FAO

IFAD etc.

This initiative involves the training of the youth in the use of various ICT tools/software that are relevant in developing their capacities to be actively engaged in to Agriculture.

Platforms for youth to network/ twin e.g.: audio conferencing.

SYFN

BIOVISION

CTA

CaFAN

Instituting an ICT platform for farmers and farmer’s organizations within and across nations to network to develop their capacities for an improved engagement in Agriculture.

Self-improved and motivation- Human Capital through ICTs.

CTA

SYFN

CaFAN

Mobile apps for young employees, webinars, e-training courses, blogs on personal development skills in agri-entrepreneurship.

Training on social media tools; web and mobile apps available; traditional ICT tools.

SANGONet

Youngdevs initiative Ghana (YIGh)

Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN)

University Jeffery Town Farmers

SPC/LRD PAFPnet

Leveraging on CTA training on web 2.0 to youth to scale-up and engage more youth.

Support in conducting proactive research measuring impact of youth and ICT in agriculture.

SANGONet

Youngdevs initiative Ghana (YIGh)

Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN)

University

Jeffery Town Farmers

SPC/LRD PAFPnet

Collaborative researches; Documenting case studies; Measuring impact of ICTs.

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Documenting success stories to build youth interest in agriculture with ICT

Youngdevs initiative Ghana (YIGh)

Agricinghana blog

University

Jeffery Town Farmers

SPC/LRD PAFPnet

Create Knowledge Huts to showcase success stories.

Financial support for app developers (Rolling fund).

Partners from CTA to evaluate

SANGONet

Syecomp Business Services, Ghana.

Contest for best mAgric developers. Best developers supported to scale up their enterprises.

Creation of a fund to support ICT projects of youth in rural areas.

Regional authority for ICT regulation

National government

Other technical and financial partners

Establishment of a fund and a selection committee for projects.

Using mobile phones (Both voice picture messaging and sms) to provide agriculture training and consultancy services for the youth.

Voice Outreach System developed by Anton Robinson

Ministry of Agriculture

Infonet-biovision

Farm input companies

Telecenter where farmers can access agricultural information (audio visual content).

Farmers

Stock feed manufacturers

Buyers

Shiriki Charity organization

Put up buildings/rent spaces and equipment;

Get volunteer trainers and experts; Raise awareness on the value of

organic farming and food ; Main focus – organic food production

and environmental conservation.

ICT led system to manage the seed market, to network farmers with organizations or peers. ICT can be utilized in the traceability support system that tracks where the produce comes from and where it is sold.

Suppliers of farm inputs

Fair Trade south Africa / UK – can provide system template or benchmark

Radio and mobile film screenings to change the perspectives that is out there about agriculture.

TV and Radio stations

Government

Cell phone companies

Advocating for the reduction of costs of communication in rural areas.

National telecoms

Regional authority for ICT regulation

National government

Lobbying, advocacy.

Establishment of a training in ICTs and Rural Development, issuing a certificate.

CTA

ONG

Universities and schools of agriculture

Establishing training modules, creating a platform for distance education, student recruitment and advertising.

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Annex 2 Agenda of the Consultative workshop

Facilitator

9:00 Opening remarks and introduction of participants

- Ken Lohento, CTA - ICT4D Programme Coordinator; [5-10’]

- Sebastian Chakeredza, African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE); [5-10’]

- Introduction of the participants. [15’]

9:30 Session I – YoBloCo Awards: presentation of selected blogs

- Keron Bascombe (Agribusiness Society of the University of the West

Indies): Presentation of the blog “Technology4agri – An extension of the

Agribusiness Society of UWI”; [15’]

- Nawsheen Hosenally (blogger): presentation of the blog “Nawsheen’s

World”; [15’]

- Emmanuel Anago Codjo (Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono et du

Couffo): Presentation of the blog “Riziculteurs du Mono et du Couffo”. [15’]

Peter Ballantyne,

ILRI, (YoBloCo

judge)

10:15 Open discussion [30’]

10:45 Coffee break [15’]

11:00

Session II – YoBloCo Awards: organization and perspectives

- Giorgio Bellinzas, CTA - ICT4D Group [15’]

Keeley Holder, CAFAN

(Caribbean farmers’ network)

11:15 Open discussion [45’]

General comments about YoBloCo Awards

Suggestions and proposals for next year’s edition.

12:00 Session III – Presentation of ARDYIS Project’s activities (2010 - 2012)

- Ken Lohento, CTA - ICT4D Programme Coordinator [20’]

- Sylvestre Ouédraogo - Yam Pukri association (Burkina Faso/West

Tia Moses (Savannah

Young Farmers’ Network)

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Africa):The advisory committee contribution to the ARDYIS Project [10’]

12:30 Open discussion [30’]

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Session IV – Partners’ experiences relating to youth involvement in ICT and agriculture

- Matthew de Gale, SANGONeT – Programme manager:

Presentation of the Kenyan dairy Mobile project involving youth. [15’]

- Anju Mangal, SPC/PAFPNet (Pacific Agriculture and Forestry Policy Network): Youth, ICT and Agriculture in the Pacific [15’]

- Gracia Mulumba, Organization of African Youth:

Motivating youth to get into agriculture. Findings and recommendations from relevant experiences [15’]

Giorgio Bellinzas (CTA - ICT4D)

14:45 Open discussion with participants and partners [20’]

15:05

Session V – Group discussions

- Organization of group work and discussion [15’]

- Group a) and b): Improving opportunities for youth in agriculture with ICT

[1h]

- Group c) and d): Improving livelihoods and opportunities for youth in rural

areas with ICT [1h]

Bheenick Krishan

(CTA, KM Senior

Programme Coordinator)

Coffee break [15’]

16:35 - Feedback from group activities [45’]

17:20 Closing remarks

- Ken Lohento, CTA - ICT4D Programme Coordinator [10’]

17:30 End of activities – Group Photo

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Annex 3 List of participants

Name and surname Organization Nationality

Ms Nawsheen Hosenally YPLD Mauritius Mauritius

Mr Sourou Nankpan Bénin

Ms Anne Matho Motsou JADE Cameroun Cameroon

Mr Hudson Wereh Biovision farmer communication

programme (ICIPE) Kenya

Ms Grace Wanene Kenya

Mr Keron Bascombe Agribusiness Society of the University of West Indies

Trinidad and Tobago

Ms Hortensia Hosnah Farming and Technology for Africa Madagascar

Mr Solomon Elorm Allavi Syecomp Business Services Ghana

Ms Lovasoa Andrianry Fanilon’i Madagasikara Madagascar

Mr Bernard Mbuchu Gichuki Shiriki Organization Kenya

Mr Sègla Emmanuel Anago Codjo

Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono et du Couffo

Bénin

Mr Robert Kibaya KIRUCODO Uganda

Mr Martial Gervais Oden Bella GIC Bellomar Cameroon

Mr Sebastian Chakeredza ANAFE Kenya

Mr Peter Ballantyne International Livestock Research

Institute (ILRI) UK

Ms Keeley Holder CaFAN Barbados

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Ms Anju Mangal Secretariat of Pacific Community Fiji

Mr Sylvestre Ouédraogo Yam-Pukri Burkina Faso

Mr Tia Moses Nganwani Savannah Young Farmers Network

(SYFN) Ghana

Ms Ivy Gordon Jeffrey Town Farmers Association /

ICT4D Jamaica UK

Mr Obert Mathivha Commercial Agricultural Youth

Chamber (CANYC) South Africa

Ms Gracia Mulumba OAYouth DC Congo

Mr Matthew De Gale SANGONeT South Africa

Mr Giorgio Bellinzas CTA Italy

Mr Krishan Bheenick CTA Mauritius

Mr Ken Lohento CTA Bénin