COP15 has seen the participation of FOKO’s in real time live. Patrick has again outdone himself by participating with the non governmental organization Jade in a direct videoconferencing with Copenhagen. Patrick proposed to gather questions in advance on his blog.

The work with Jade has started on November 21 during a day dedicated to “Tamatave youth [...]

LYVA from Antsirabe
Pour arrêter cet escalade, il faut que tout être humain soit conscient qu’il ne peut pas fuir ce problème. C’est-à-dire qu’il ne doit faire des actes qui nuisent à l’environnement. On doit donc arrêter la culture sur brûlis et la destruction des forêts. On doit utiliser des réfrigérateurs qui n’ont pas de produits [...]

Stéphane Ramananarivo has been the  coordinator based in Madagascar in charge of the very successful Blog Club project and the Green Foko environmental initiatives project. His efforts and commitment to development were often reported on GlobalVoices Online funded community, the Rising Voices’. Stéphane himself started blogging 2 years ago when he helped create Foko-Madagascar since [...]

A joint project between Zebu Nation and Foko focusing on reforestation in Madagascar had its first two outings in Antananarivo (Ambohitrarahaba) and Mahajanga (Vohitsoa). Zebu Nation is a group led by NY-based Malagasy singer Razia Said that dedicate a portion of each sale from their album entitled “Zebu Nation” to regrowing the vanishing forest [...]

With internet penetration at less than 1%, the true democratic reach of internet is still a long way from becoming reality in Madagascar. One way to bridge this gap is proposed by Christi Turner, digital outreach extraordinaire and Affick Gassard, journalist for Radio Ciel new Foko member from Antalaha. The contact was established thanks to [...]