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Aminata D. Traoré, former minister of cultural affairs and tourism of Mali, is one of the most prominent African opponents of globalization. At the Ars Electronica Festival Symposium, she deals with the question of whether highly touted information and communication technologies really do provide the right answers to bringing Africa out of its isolation.

Aminata Traoré, a doctor of social psychology, is an author, community leader and manager of cultural events and enterprises. As an international consultant, her work has focused on social development and social cost of globalisation, women issues, environment and the role of culture as the basis for human reconstruction when access to essential goods is problematic. From 1988 to 1992, Dr Traore was the Regional director for the UNDP PROWEVESS Programme (Promotion of the Role of Women in Water, Environmental and Sanitation Services). She recently published L'Etau - L'Afrique dans un monde sans frontière and Le viol de l'imaginaire dealing with the debt issue, African decision-making capacity, and the singularity of African culture.

In the context of the preparation of the World Summit on the Information Society in Africa, the Forum for Another Mali (FAM) – initiated by Aminata Traoré - which emerged from the African Social Forum and the World Social Forum, true to its mission statement of seeking to create transparency, questions the information society and the solutions it offers for Africa.

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