Cyber Village
“Our Cyber Village serves as a technology bridge for students in Africa and America, it’s an exciting, fun, way to teach and educate our students.”
– Mara Diakhate
A technology bridge
The Da'African Village Cyber Village
Our cyber village is a technology bridge that connects and reconnects the African and the African American diaspora. This Internet bridge will target 12 to 18-year-old students in America and West Africa by helping to expose them to a world beyond their imagination.
With a cyber village in Dakar, Sénégal, and another in Los Angeles, California, we plan to commission 20 computer workstations in each location. Using the vast power of the Internet, these cyber villages will serve as portals for cultural exchange; exchanging language, music, dance, and much more between the two groups.
Our first cyber village was established in 2014 in Dakar, Sénégal.
Village Cyber Projects
Our Teaching Syllabus
Our cyber villages provide fun and exciting ways through which middle and high school children in separate continents can learn about African and African-American culture.
Language Exchange Project
- The Sénégalese students will use their common exposure to French and Wolof to teach the American students with the above languages
- The American students will use their common exposure to English and Spanish to help teach the Sénégalese students with the above languages.
Cultural Exchange Project
- The Sénégalese students will discuss and exhibit the different and common cultural traits of Sénégal.
- The American students will discuss and exhibit the different and common cultural traits of America.
Dance Energy Project
- This is the fun, energy project to bring the students closer together as they express the dance and music of Sénégal.
- Encore, the fun, energy project to bring the students closer together as they express the dance and music of America.
Technological Exchange Project
The technological exchange project will foster the development of STEM or (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) skills applied to the real-world environment. Students will use the computer WEB Camera to show work on projects with their hands, both in Sénégal and in America. We will take STEM out of the books onto the pages of reality. The project, as follows include:
- Basic teardown and reassembly will show how things work and how to put them back together. Some items include old laptops, small DC motors, RC Airplanes/Cars and other items.
- Electricity and Ohm’s Law: By having the students build an electric circuit, the student can demonstrate how electricity operates lights, motors, horns and heaters in the real world.
- Liquid cooler; Using a fish aquarium cooler, a pump, a flow switch and water tubing the students will demonstrate how to cool soda using a liquid cooler.
- 3D Printer Purchase: we will purchase two 3D printers so students can learn how to use technology to produce 3D objects for design, industry and repair.