Julie Owono is in charge of the Africa Desk at Internet Sans Frontières, a Paris-based organisation that promotes Digital freedoms, and Internet as a tool for change. She led several crowdsourcing projects on the African continent and recently launched Feowl, an open data platform that produces data on electricity supply in Douala, Cameroon. She is a columnist for Al Jazeera English and is often solicited by International and Pan African TV medias an expert on political and social issues in the Gulf of Guinea. She was invited as a speaker at the Small Media Symposium at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and was adjudicator for 2012 Telkom Highway Africa New Media Award. Julie Owono holds a Master degree in International Law from the Sorbonne Law School and worked as a project manager at the International Organization for Migration in the Lao PDR in 2009. Twitter : JulieOwono Blog : Bantupolitics.blogspot.com
Click here for a French language version of this post Looking at this map of the Earth at night published by Nasa on its website, I am struck by an interesting observation: with only a few points of light, Africa is literally the dark continent, in terms of citizen’s access to and consumption of civil energy.
NASA Earth Observatory En regardant cette carte de la Terre dans la nuit publiée par la Nasa sur son site internet, une pensée peut frapper l’esprit: avec seulement quelques points de lumière, l’Afrique est littéralement le continent noir, en termes d’accès des citoyens à la consommation d’énergie civile. C’est assez paradoxal. En effet, ce n’est