This document presents the results of a study on Public Access Venues (PAVs) and Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs) in Mozambique. The study aimed to create a map of the number, type, and location of PAVs in Mozambique and introduce the CMCs and government programs related to them. The methodology involved collecting information from official sources and surveying CMCs by phone. The results found 63 total PAVs, including 40 CMCs, located across Mozambique's three macro regions. Of the 40 CMCs, 36 were fully functioning and 17 offered ICT training to local communities, accounting for 74% of the CMCs that responded to the survey.

1. How is Education fostered
by PAVs and CMCs in Mozambique?
Sara Vannini, Dr. Isabella Rega, Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Cantoni

2. Aims of the presentation
Specific Goals:
• To create for the first time a map of the current number,
typology and localization of PAVs in Mozambique;

3. Aims of the presentation
Specific Goals:
• To create for the first time a map of the current number,
typology and localization of PAVs in Mozambique;
• To introduce Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs)
and which the governmental programs regarding them;

4. Aims of the presentation
Specific Goals:
• To create for the first time a map of the current number,
typology and localization of PAVs in Mozambique;
• To introduce Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs)
and which the governmental programs regarding them;
• To draw a map of the education services CMCs offer to
the population, thus helping quantify the magnitude of
the phenomenon in the country.

5. Aims of the presentation
General Goals:
• Serve as a frame from which to draw samples (both
at a research and at a governmental level);

6. Aims of the presentation
General Goals:
• Serve as a frame from which to draw samples (both
at a research and at a governmental level);
• Facilitate analysis by making it possible to
differentiate findings by type of establishment;

7. Aims of the presentation
General Goals:
• Serve as a frame from which to draw samples (both
at a research and at a governmental level);
• Facilitate analysis by making it possible to
differentiate findings by type of establishment;
• Participate in the Global Impact Study to help
quantify the magnitude of the public access ICT
phenomenon globally.

8. Public Access Venues
A Public Access to ICTs Venue (PAV)
is a place where the general public can use a
computer and connect to the Internet…

9. Public Access Venues
A Public Access to ICTs Venue (PAV)
is a place where the general public can use a
computer and connect to the Internet…
No matter whether…
• It is a stand alone facility;
• The service is paid for or free.
www.globalimpactstudy.org

10. The Context: Mozambique
Why Mozambique?
1. Mozambique is one of the countries that was selected for
UNESCO’s CMCs scale-up program;

11. The Context: Mozambique
Why Mozambique?
1. Mozambique is one of the countries that was selected for
UNESCO’s CMCs scale-up program;
2. The Government of Mozambique will set up new CMCs in
the very next years;

12. The Context: Mozambique
Why Mozambique?
1. Mozambique is one of the countries that was selected for
UNESCO’s CMCs scale-up program;
2. The Government of Mozambique will set up new CMCs in
the very next years;
3. Missing study;

13. The Context: Mozambique
Why Mozambique?
1. Mozambique is one of the countries that was selected for
UNESCO’s CMCs scale-up program;
2. The Government of Mozambique will set up new CMCs in
the very next years;
3. Missing study;
4. Overview needed!

14. The Context: Mozambique

15. The Context: Mozambique

16. Methodology
• Method by TASCHA’s Global Impact Study
inventory (www.globalimpactstudy.org);
• Retrieval of information by official sources, literature
review;
• Survey to the CMCs carried on by telephone at a
national level (technology availability, people involved,
services and training offered to the communities…).

17. Results: PAVs’ Number and Typology
63 official PAVs in Mozambique:
• 40 Multimedia Community Centres (CMCs)
• 14 Cybercafés
• 6 Millennium Villages
• 2 Telecentres
• 1 “Cyber Bus”

18. Results: # of PAVs per macro regions
Total # Total CMCs Others Total / region
Maputo 15 8 7
South Gaza 6 4 2 25 (15 CMCs)
Inhambane 4 3 1
Zambezia 6 4 2
Manica 4 3 1
Centre 19 (11 CMCs)
Sofala 4 1 3
Tete 5 3 2
Nampula 11 6 5
North 19 (14 CMCs)
Cabo Delgado 4 4 0
Niassa 4 4 0

19. Results
# Total CMCs: 40
# CMCs still not fully working: 4
# CMCs fully working: 36
# CMCs that did not respond to our phone survey: 13
# CMCs that responded to our phone survey: 23

20. Results: Offered courses per macro regions
Computer
External
Internal
Tot
CMCs
Foreign
maintena training
training
Word,
Internet
offering
Access
Language nce
for
for
for
ppt,
xls
(Explorer)
ICT
s
(EN,
FR)
volunteer volunteer volunteer
training
s
s
s
SOUTH
8
1
3
0
1
5
6
8
CENTRE
3
0
1
0
0
2
2
3
NORTH
6
0
1
1
1
3
4
6
TOT.
17
1
5
1
2
10
12
17

21. Results: Offered courses per macro regions
Tot
#
CMCs
Total
#
of
CMCs
%
on
the
tot
offering
ICT
that
responded
CMCs
that
training
to
the
to
our
survey
responded
community
SOUTH
8
8
100%
CENTRE
7
3
43%
NORTH
8
6
75%
TOT.
23
17
74%

22. Thank You!
Sara Vannini, Dr. Isabella Rega, Prof. PhD Lorenzo Cantoni
www.react-project.ch