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Attitude Clando de Dieudonné Niangouna est lu par son frère Criss Niangouna sous la direction de Catherine Boskovitz . C’était au festival d’Avignon le 11 juillet dernier. Le texte est à découvrir aux Editions Les solitaires Intempestifs.
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« Attitude Clando » lu par Criss Niangouna

Jessi Baker (Project Provenance) delivers her talk 'Telling stories: products and their data', as part of the "Show me the future of... open data and food" research afternoon. Jessie discusses voluntary supply chain transparency, how this can affect brand and how a product is perceived by consumers. 

The open data and food research afternoon was part of the "Show me the future of" series that focuses on the potential impact of open data on different established industries. #odifutures

Consumers are demanding to know more and more about the food they eat and where it comes from. Open data is answering some of these demands by allowing people and companies to track supply chains, make better agricultural decisions and healthier food choices.

Jessi Baker - Show me the future of.... food and open data

Open Data - Jebelean Ovidiu & Nicole Roberts

CityBridge and Wheatley Education Campus in Washington D.C.

As cities develop around the world, air pollution has become a major problem. Even in Paris, pollution peaks in the spring of 2015 made headlines, authorities warning people to stay indoors. 

Doctors and scientists know pollution can be deadly, but they are not very sure how exactly it affects people, as there is a notable lack of data for them to work with. Romain Lacombe is hoping to change that. He is the founder of Plume Labs, a start-up in Paris that is developing personal air monitoring devices.

An evangelist for open data, Lacombe has described himself as "transparency engineer". He worked on open data projects for the French government before starting his own company.

He spoke with RFI’s Sarah Elzas.

Open data about pollution advances democracy

Catching the bus in Nairobi can be a frustrating experience. For many people, it involves jumping aboard a matatu — one of the privately run, 14-seater buses that thread the streets of Kenya’s capital. But the government has little oversight of the matatus: since public transport was privatised in the 1980s, they have been poorly regulated and now vary wildly in quality. 

Now, however, a project seeks to bring order to the chaos of Nairobi’s streets. Digital Matatus, a research collaboration between the University of Nairobi, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Columbia University in the United States, uses a range of data sources to make sense of the city’s transport system. 

The team has been working with computer science students, tech companies and volunteers to map matatu routes using smartphones, mobile routing apps, satellite positioning and location- linked transport schedules. Its data-driven maps, showing Nairobi’s 130-plus matatu routes for the first time, are freely available to the public. Commuters can now navigate their city more easily and securely, and policymakers can visualise Nairobi’s transport network more clearly, thus improving urban planning.

The next step is to take the project to other places. “If we can have several other cities create data and use it to make decisions, we would be thrilled,” Sarah Williams, professor of urban studies at MIT and the project’s co-leader, explains in this audio interview. “I would love to […] start a trend where informal transit is visualised for everyone.”

http://www.scidev.net/global/transport/multimedia/project-maps-kenyan-buses-smartphones-cities.html

Project maps Kenyan buses with smartphones

EU foreign ministers have agreed to a new mission to enforce an arms embargo in Libya following repeated violations of last month's ceasefire.

Ministers met in Brussels in Monday to discuss the conflict in Tripoli. It comes after UN deputy special envoy to Libya Stephanie Williams, described the current arms embargo in place as a "joke", calling on those who breach it to be held to account.

The European Union was split over whether to revive a maritime surveillance mission in the Mediterranean to ensure the UN arms embargo is respected, out of fears that it could create a "pull effect" for migrants hoping to cross into Europe.

Despite the EU naval mission, experts like Mitchell Belfer, head of the European Gulf Information Centre in Rome, are sceptical that it will ensure a lasting ceasefire.

He spoke to RFI's Christina Okello.

For more news, follow Christina on Twitter @vivalid

EU gives green light for Libya naval mission as ceasefire hangs in balance

The killing of journalists at Charlie Hebdo five years ago prompted TV producer Laurent Richard to continue the work of assassinated reporters.

He set up the NGO Forbidden Stories, an international consortium of journalists determined to keep the stories of their colleagues alive.

In their new documentary Green Blood, Richard and his partners expose the global pattern of harassment and intimidation facing journalists who try and report on environment issues.

Richard was in our studios this week and sat down to talk with RFI's Christina Okello.

For more news, follow Christina on Twitter @vivalid and to get the full story, log onto RFI English's website here:
http://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20200226-french-documentary-green-blood-exposes-dirty-business-mining-industry

And on Youtube: https://studio.youtube.com/video/DlcxDKz8djw/edit

Green Blood will be broadcast this Sunday 1st March on French TV channel France 5.

Environment journalists at risk, new documentary shows

Uganda became the first African country last week to deploy a nationwide digital registry to improve transparency of its land sector.
The system, operating in some 22 districts, is aimed at reducing fraud and the time it takes to carry out transactions.
Fake land titles are one of the many tricks conmen use to dupe potential buyers.
That could soon change, says Christophe Dekeyne, CEO of French company IGN FI behind the digitisation process. He spoke to RFI's Christina Okello.

For more news, follow Christina on Twitter @vivalid

Uganda moves to strengthen land rights with digital registry

Beautifully read by Richard Briers - ‘There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.’

A timeless and celebrated children’s classic, Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows has delighted for nearly 100 years. In the idyllic English countryside, Mole, Badger, Rat and Toad encounter adventure at every turn – whether it’s gipsy caravans, Rat’s love for the river, or Toads passion for motorcars, the loveable friends and their escapades continue to delight children and adults alike.

Buy this audiobook 

The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame read by Richard Briers

Gérard Le Chêne, président du Festival Vues d’Afrique, nous raconte sa vision de la première édition numérique de ce rendez-vous incontournable du cinéma africain et créole en Amérique du Nord. Situé à Montréal, au Québec, la 36e édition aura lieu entre le 17 et 26 avril 2020 sur la plateforme www.tv5unis.ca, uniquement accesible au Canada.

Vues d’Afrique en mode numérique : « On a fait un virage, on va faire un festival numérique »

Critics have hit out at a decision by Uganda's parliament to award MPs 10 billion Ugandan shillings (2.4 million euros) to help them manage the coronavirus pandemic. They say the money was deducted from the health ministry's Covid-19 budget and should be given back.
Speaking to RFI's Christina Okello, opposition lawmaker Jonathan Odur accuses the government of using the coronavirus emergency response as an excuse to "defraud the nation."

For more news, follow Christina on Twitter @vivalid.

To get the full story, log onto RFI English's account at: http://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20200421-public-outcry-in-uganda-as-mps-offered-coronavirus-cash

Ugandan MP slams 10 bn cut from Covid-19 budget

When all around you seems to be going "open", what should you know and bear in mind to avoid a privacy debacle. Unless your data is solely about inanimate objects, there will be privacy considerations for your business or organisation. 

Done properly, suitable consideration may be trivial; done badly, it can be catastrophic, and hindsight is always better when the stories are about a different organisation.

With kittens and hopefully some humour, Sam Smith of Privacy International covers how your organisation can avoid a future audience laughing (uncomfortably) at the privacy choices you should have made for your users, your customers and citizens.

ODI Fridays: Business considerations for privacy and open data: how not to get caught out

[Chronique confinée]

Voici une nouvelle semaine de recommandations culturelles pour illuminer vos journées de confinement à travers des petits podcasts quotidiens préparés avec amour par les chroniqueurs du VLF…

Aujourd’hui c’est Maëlane qui vous propose une chronique musicale sur le podcast "Dans la peau" de Frédérique Lebel, produit et diffusé par RFI !

Tous les épisodes du podcast sont à découvrir ici : http://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/dans-la-peau/ 

Extraits : épisodes "Nanou, une infidèle très fidèle", "Eve, la foudroyée", "Lucie, fleur tardive"

Musique : As I Figure - Latinesque par Kevin MacLeod 


Retrouvez-nous sur Facebook : www.facebook.com/LeVinleLieuetlaFormule

Chroniques confinées - podcast "Dans la peau" de Frédérique Lebel, par Maëlane

Three women, who were arrested on suspicion of belonging to Boko Haram, went on retrial in Cameroon Friday on charges of espionage. 

The case dates back to 2014 when the women: Marie Dawandala, Damaris Doukouya and Martha Weteya, all aged 17 at the time, fled the Nigerian islamist group.

Instead of finding safety at home, they were arrested by Cameroonian authorities.

For Marie-Lina Samuel, Africa Project Coordinator with the organisation ECPM (Together Against the Death Penalty), the women found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Samuel spoke to RFI's Christina Okello.

For more news, follow Christina @vivalid

And to delve further, check out the web version on RFI English's homepage:
http://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20200626-these-girls-escaped-boko-haram-face-lengthy-jail-terms-cameroon

Trial of three girls who fled Boko Haram adjourned for fourth time

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Open data about pollution advances democracy

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