«The best project is...»


Photo J-Ch. Théobalt, correspondant français (Ministère de la Culture)

Le projet "Parcours" (cf. http://ecm.terrasson.free.fr) a été primé en novembre 2004 par la Commission Européenne comme meilleur projet parmi plus de 650 (et plus de 20 pays). Ce prix a eu lieu il me semble, grâce à l'aspect géopolitique du moment, où la Côte d'Ivoire (notre partenaire d'alors était l'association d'étudiants en informatique d'Abidjan, NetForAll) et la France n'avait pas des rapports très très bons :-/

À cette occasion, plusieurs journaux de plusieurs pays, "online", ont diffusé une information ; ma plus grande joie aura été de voir un extrait du Guardian qui résume l'interview d'une journaliste de ce journal :  Le prix m'a été remis par José Pessanha.

« The overall winner of the main competition was a French project, PARCOURS inter N.E.T., a virtual recreation of the town of Terrasson-Lavilledieu near Brive in the Dordogne, France. It was set up by Espace Culture Multimedia (ECM) and Temps Jeune, an organisation dedicated to disadvantaged or disaffected youngsters, as a way to introduce young people to working with CD-roms, digital cameras and the internet. The technology unleashed something in their imagination, says Thierry Loiseau of ECM.

"I would have been happy to stop when they were familiar with multimedia, but it was the children who saw the possibilities and wanted to go further and create the virtual tour," he insists.

The tour traces a route through the streets, using individual digital camera shots taken every few metres. Such is the intimacy evoked by the photographs that you actually feel you are walking through the town and get a taste of what it is like to live there, said the judges. ECM is now helping to set up a multimedia project in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, an exceptional venture while political relations between France and its former colony continue to be poor. As their partners in Africa have yet to get their own internet connection, children from Ivory Coast are talking to their French counterparts from a cyber cafe, exchanging poems, drawings and pictures online, and using that old-fashioned medium, letter-writing.

"Eventually we are hoping to export the multimedia application we used to create virtual Terrasson to the Ivory Coast and help them to build a virtual version of Abidjan," says Loiseau».



Je ne savais pas que je causais aussi bien l'anglais, moi ptdr



Titi (qui rigole, mais j'ai dû présenter le projet en anglais, sans préparation, et puis moi et l'anglais...)

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