From Ninety Great Projects to Fifteen Select Featured Projects, all decided through community Voting.

We are glad for the recognition the community gave US by making sure we made it to the final fifteen.

This is a big step towards fulfilling our dedication to the rural farming  communities in Cameroon that we represent.

Now that its up to the judges to go through each project and decide which to select, we can only expect the best and look to the future with optimism.

Some farmers have been speaking and we hope you get their feedback about what it means to be an uninformed farmer in Cameroon.

Wow..its been a hectic 5 day window of opportunity for social change agents. AMIS-CAMEROON extends its gratitude to FACT and Netsquared for hosting another Change Oriented Program.

So what next? This is a question that preoccupies some if not ALL of us.

We think this challenge has given us all the chance to network in different ways with other project initiators, and it is important that we continue the cooperation long after the curtain on this challenge finally folds with the announcement of the featured projects and subsequent winners.

Thanks for a dynamic community that is always there to encourage us through our endeavours.

Tambe Harry

 A hungry man they say is an angry man. Hunger is a craving that needs to be met with adequate supplies of food. Any imbalance in the way people or nature endows or takes away the possibility to meet these needs leads to Chaos in every society.

We can read about former civilizations when FIRE used to be at the center for conflicts. The person possessing fire attracted both the ire and attention of those without it..Having Fire meant being able to cook your meals and enjoy it, and the absence of same meant eating raw food and being unhealthy..Then it was salt, and then the mirror...the list is long.

I have long known that managing AMIS-CAMEROON is a challenge. It is a challenge because its success means a lot of hard work by a small group of dedicated experts and volunteers. But after two years of working with the farmers, consumers and other stakeholders , I have come up with a new management model for AMIS. This management model identifies the different service delivery units that make up AMIS and puts out each of these modules to external contractors to sponsor. 

The different modules shall be under the direct supervision of AMIS' Domain Experts. Our Domain experts work with domain contractors to explore and bring out the most out of a particular  Module.

 With just a few hours away to the casting of the first community Vote for FACT Projects , we request you to take a look at AMIS-CAMEROON's noble cause for the farmers and VOTE to send this project to glory. When we win, it is the farmer who wins, and when the farmer wins, it is YOU the consumer who wins because you shall have the products you need at the price you need , in the market you need, and at the time you need them. All of these can happen if only you browse through the projects and push the VOTE button against the AMIS-CAMEROON project

Despite difficulties we have been going through ,The AMIS TEAM is announcing the publishing  of a  Monthly NEWS LETTER informing members of its activities since the end of the N2Y4 Challenge.

 While we hope to invite you sometime in the future to view updates on our website, all news updates past and present shall be yours  weekly until we cover the information lapsus created because such news couldnt feature on our website for now.

Some information to look forward to include  AMIS-CAMEROON activities in Cameroon in August to September, AMIS-CAMEROON participation at European Development Days in Stockholm and the next event of AMIS-CAMEROON at the Barcamp in Douala this November 7th.

Your Vote Today For AMISPROJECT shall be a win- win for all . In this age when people will stop at NOTHING to get a livelihood for themselves ( and this calls to mind the hostage taking sprees along the Somali Coast where fishing has become less lucrative), we  believe that when communities numbering into the millions (70% of 20Million  Cameroonians Practice Farming) get a means of living honest lives, then the wider society to which we all belong shall be safe and protected from menaces.

We believe in the ability of AMISPROJECT to inform and transform farmers from beggars into well to do individuals, and when this happens they shall not feel the need to endulge in activities that endanger our common existence.

Why would we want YOU to vote for AMISPROJECT Cameroon?

First our farmers constitute 70% of a population of over 20Million people

More than half of these farmers have access to a Mobile phone

Less than 1% of these farmers will get an internet access by 2020

So, if we give them the information they need via SMS, this means more farmers will get informed and take decisions that change their lives, preserve the ecosystems, and increase food production and fight hunger, famine and the need to beg! beg !beg!

My name is Valery Colong . I am Technology coordinator of AMISPROJECT Cameroon. We have been working on  the Agricultural Market Information Service (AMISPROJECT) to deliver timely information to farmers and consumers. We carried out or field studies which we presented at a conference in Cameroon last year. I am excited to be here to represent our TEAM and look forward to having a great conference and making new connections for future collaboration.

Here you get a power point presentation of the work we carried out in the field.AMISPROJECT presented these findings at the ICT AFRICA conference 2008 at Yaounde Cameroon to the satisfaction of all present.