Daily Archives: September 4, 2013


Summer Reflection #1: ICTD in Báhia Málaga, Colombia

The New Media Task Force has been all over the world this summer. In this series of blog posts, current NMTF members reflect on their summer experiences with information and communication technology in Colombia, New York and Rwanda.  Jesper Frant spent approximately eight weeks working with a rural afro-Colombian community inside the Uramba-Bahía Málaga National Natural Park helping to develop the community’s ecotourism business as an alternative to traditional (now-illegal) extractive economic activities such as fishing, logging and hunting. Despite the natural beauty of the surroundings, residents of Bahía Málaga suffer […]