Something from Nothing (Tout à Partir de Rien)

A quest on the tracks of the Internet in Africa. A crew of volunteers from CERN, ICVolunteers and UNVolunteers go on a trip through Senegal and Mali to find out about the cultural impact of the new technologies on the population, particularly in isolated areas.
A CERN-ICVolunteers coproduction for WSIS 2003.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• internet
• africa
• something
• from
• nothing
• tout
• partir
• de
• rien
• icvolunteers
• informaticiens
• sans
• frontieres
• shindouk
• wsis

[cthulhex]

Two CERN scientists were the original developers of the World WIde Web, creating the way Hypertext works under html.

[mari0ard]

good video..but the man is right, they have other priorities

[bobbyburnerut]

less than 25% of the worlds population has access to the ineternet

[mamolian]

CERN is after creating technology capable of replacing the current internet infrastructure.. Look up info on this "grid" as they call it.

[makstad]

Except for increasing availability of online jobs.

[makstad]

Why?

[jmike05s]

damn anime wanna be

poor little kid

[jmike05s]

brainless

[comp7878]

I really enjoyed the monologue of the nomad.

[caprioaraciprian]

Thing must be combined. They need a mature lidership and offcourse the internet. A mature lidership will appear when the population is educatied and the internet is a step in this matter. i think that the internet is a big step in saving them but offcourse things must be combined.