IT46 and the mast at Fantsuam

Mark Charmer from Akvo has been asking me for more "history" from Fantsuam, so I thought I'd dig around for something about the mast:

I went to the website of IT46 - a Swedish-based IT consultancy company with a vision: knowledge transfer to recipients to promote social change - http://it46.se/vision which enabled the mast to be erected.

On the front page http://it46.se/index.php there was a photo relating to Fantsuam (someone giving a presentation about the mast there). A larger version is at http://it46.se/images/uploads/1240998901_Dhaka_local_materials_skills.JPG where you can see three good photos and these key points

Innovation

• Local materials
• Local skills
  

I did a search for Fantsuam and found nineteen search results - telling the story of the mast.

The URL below is a direct link to my search results.
URL: http://www.it46.se/search.php?status=submit&search_option=1&containing=Fantsuam

The latest entry (with photo) was about storm damage on April 24th:
Ochuko Oneberhie from Fantsuam reported that during a heavy rain storm,the wind bent the
tower from the top. In the course of its fall one of the legs was uprooted from the ground with the foundation.
Several buildings including the old network operation center, a Cisco Laboratory and a neighboring building has been seriously damaged. No
human casualty or injury was involved.

http://www.it46.se/show_entry.php?id=374

Partners of IT46 are:

SIDA - The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency	APC - The Association for Progressive Communications
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Unidade Técnica de Implementação da Polí­tica de Informática	International Development Research Centre
The Swedish Program for Information and Communication Technology in Developing Regions	European Commission - IST
DSV -Department of Computer and Systems Sciences	UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
Olof Palme International Center	CICAT - TU Delft
Al Akhawayn University Ifrane	Meraka Institute
Schoolnet NA	Cygate