July 24, 2003
Point Sud
Centre de Recherche sur le Savoir Local (Center for Research on Local Knowledge)
"Point Sud is an autonomous research institution that focused on developing a new mode of interaction amongth Southern countries and the North. It was founded as the result of a local initiative comprised of both native and non-native Malians in cooperations with the University of Bayreuth, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and other scientific institutions including l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris and the Center of International and Area Studies of Yale University. Point Sud mobilizes resources in order to carry out research projects and educate graduate students from around the world working towards this objective."
At our meeting this morning with Point Sud codirector Moussa Sissoko and Violet Diallo from Ashoka, we discussed the possibility of a partnership between Point Sud and Design that Matters, which would help to connect university students in Mali and other Francophone West African countries with DtM design challenges.
