Liz Cooper - design and NGO communications: Video on ICT and arts and crafts, SIAO 2008, Burkina Faso

8 January 2009

Video on ICT and arts and crafts, SIAO 2008, Burkina Faso

At the SIAO 2008 (International Arts and Crafts Trade Fair) in Ouagadoudou, Burkina Faso, an organisation called TV Wagues (TV 'Come and See' in More - local language) made several short films on different themes. I was interviewed for one of their reports on ICT and arts and crafts - the use of websites to promote and sell African products.

Click on the link below to see this short video (my interview was in French)

http://www.wagues.net/?p=399

Or watch the video here:

Some of the other videos on the Wagues site also contain images of the African Fair Trade Group stand and the objects displayed on it.

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I started this blog in 2007 to share updates on my work in fair trade textiles and crafts. In 2006 I graduated with a BA(hons) degree in fashion design in London and have since been focusing on more socially and environmentally responsible alternatives to conventional textiles and apparel manufacture. From 2007 to 2010 I worked in Senegal, mainly on a fair trade organic cotton project with a local NGO. You will find information and photos of this on older blog posts (see blog archive below). From 2010 to 2011 I spent a year in India through VSO, managing communications and a fair trade recycled textiles project for a Delhi-based youth NGO. From Autumn 2011 I'm studying for the MSc Business and Community at the University of Bath.

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