I got the catalog from the World Bank of the videos they have available.
They have hundreds of documentaries as well as raw footage available at low
prices. In looking through the catalog, I saw three videos on internet
development in Africa that looked interesting. So I called them, and sent
them a check and a week or two later I got the videos. There is some common
footage in them and getting all three is a bit redundant, but they are not
expensive and are good additions to my collection of African videos. They
were all made in 1996, but seem pretty current and still relevant to me.
Here is the synopsis given in the Bank's catalog. As you see, one video
covers all of Africa - well 5-6 countries, and the other two focus on
Ethiopia and Mozambique.
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Video #1- BUILDING AFRICA'S INFORMATION HIGHWAY
Original footage from Egypt, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Senegal, and South
Africa to showcases UNECAS's African Information Society Initiative, an
Action Framework to Build Africa's Information and Communication
Infrastructure. Includes interviews with leading African politicians
including Ethiopia's Speaker of the House of Representatives Dawit Yohannes;
Mozambique's President Joaquim Chissano and Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi,
and South Africa's Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and Minister of Posts,
Telecommunications and Broadcasting Jay Niadoo; members of UNECA's
High-Level Working Group on Information and Communications Technologies in
Africa, Hisham El Sherif (Egypt), Momar Aly Ndiaye (Senegal), and Mike
Jensen (South Africa); and leading networkers including Nancy Hafkin
(UNECA), Venancio Massingue (Mozambique), Bob Day and Andreyete Esterhausen
(South Africa), Ahmed Nazif, Sherif Hashem, and Nashua
Abdel Baki (Egypt).
Total Running Time: 25:54 Minutes
Production Year: 1996
Available In: $14.95
English, French, and Portuguese
1/2"VHS NTSC, PAL
Video #2 - BITE: BRINGING INTERNET TO ETHIOPIA
Mega Studies, Addis Ababa. Top Political, academic, and business
leaders from Ethiopia and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
discuss the role of the Internet in accelerating Ethiopia's economic and
social development. Interviews include Dawit Johannes (Speaker of the
Legislature), Abdulmejid Hussein (Minister of Transport and Communication),
Dawit Bekele (University of Addis Ababa), Nancy Hafkin and Adam Lisham
(UNECA).
Total Running Time: 17:40 Minutes
Production Year 1996
Available In: English only $14.95
1/2" VHS NTSC, PAL
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Video #3 - INTERNET IN MOZAMBIQUE
Includes interviews with top political leaders high-lighting the role
which the Internet is playing and can play in accelerating Mozambique's
economic and social development. These leaders include Joaquim Chissano
(President), Pascoal Mocumbi (Prime Minister), Bernardo Ferraz (Minister for
Coordination of Action and the Environment), Rui Fernandes (President,
Telecommunications of Mozambique), Grace Machel (widow of independent leader
Samora Machel), Brazao Mazula (Rector of Eduardo Mondlane University), and
Venancio Massingue (Director of the Center for Informatics, Eduardo
Mondlane University).
Total Running Time: 27 Minutes
Production Year: 1996
Available In: $14.95
English and Portuguese
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Contact The World Bank
Film and Video Unit
External Affairs Department
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433, USA
tel 202 473 2149
fax 202 522 2632
email chobbs1@worldbank.org
In-Reply-To: 199710082313.QAA23326@abraham.xc.org