Cape Verde - Cap-Vert - Cabo Verde (CV)
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1. Language information / Données sur les langues
1.1 Languages spoken / Langues parlées :
a) Official / Officielle(s) :
Portuguese (de jure) with Cape Verde Creole (Kabuverdianu) also mentioned in the constiturion. (Aménagement linguistique)
b) National, indigenous / Nationale(s), indigène(s) :
Almost all the population speaks Cape Verde Creole (Kabuverdianu) as their mother tongue.
Ethnologue has a list at http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=CV
c) Relevant pages in the Major Languages section of this report / Pages appropriées dans la section de ce rapport sur les Langues principales :
None. (Should Kabuverdianu be added?)
1.2 Language policy / Politique de langue
a) Laws/legislation / Lois/législation :
The site L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde has a page on Cape Verde at http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/afrique/Cap-Vert.htm
b) Agencies / Agences :
Ministère de l'Education et de la Culture
Cidade de Praia
REPUBLICA DE CABO VERDE
(Source: UNESCO, 1985)
c) Languages in education/literacy / Langues dans l'éducation/l'alphabétisation :
According to Ethnologue, Portuguese is the language of formal education.
UNDP (2006) gives a literacy figure (without reference to which language[s]) of: 76%
1.3 Writing in national/indigenous languages / Ecriture en langues nationales/indigènes
a) Orthographies / Orthographes :
b) Print publications / Editions imprimées :
UNESCO (1985) reported the following periodicals (name, frequency of publication, circulation, language). Updated information is needed:
- Voz Di Povo, weekly, 4,000, Portuguese/Cap-verdien
- Raizes, quarterly, 1,500, Portuguese/Cap-verdien
- Terra Nova, monthly, 2,100, Portuguese/Cap-verdien
1.4 Other comments / Autre commentaire
2. ICT situation / Situation des TIC
2.1 Infrastructure / Infrastructure
a) Telephones / Téléphones :
- Fixed lines:
- Telephone mainlines: 143 per 1000 people (APC)
- Telephones - main lines in use: 71,400 (2005) (CIA)
- Mobile subscriptions:
- 53,000 (12.1 per 100 people) (ITU 2004 cited in Vodafone 2005)
- Telephones - mobile cellular: 81,700 (2005) (CIA)
- GSM companies & coverage : http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_cv.shtml
b) Radio stations / Stations de radio :
Radio broadcast stations: AM 0, FM 22 (plus 12 repeaters), shortwave 0 (2002) (CIA)
c) Connectivity / Connectivité :
- International internet bandwidth / Bande passante internationale d'internet :
- ISPs / FSI : 1 (2002) (Wikipedia)
- Internet hosts
- According to CIA, 234 (2006)
- According to ISC, 4 (on .cv domain) (2007)
- Geographic coverage / Couverture géographique :
2.2 Computer & internet access / Accès aux ordinateurs et à l'internet
a) Computers & points of access / Ordinateurs et lieux d'accès :
- Number of computers / Nombre d'ordinateurs: 68.8 per 1000 people (APC)
- Cybercafés / Cybercafés:
- Project telecentres / Télécentres de projets:
b) Internet / Internet :
- Dial-up subscribers / Abonnés par ligne téléphonique :
- Internet users / Utilisateurs de l'internet : 25,000 Internet users as of Sept/05, 5.2% of the population, per ITU (Internet World Stats)
c) Other / Autre :
- Digital Opportunity Index (DOI): 0.33 (ITU 2006)
2.3 ICT policy / Politique de TIC
Cape Verde National Information and Communications Infrastructure (NICI) plan (2001): "Plan National de Développement d’Infrastructure des Technologies d’Information et Communication" http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/Documents/PNTICS-fr_version_final.pdf
More information on Cape Verde's NICI policy is available at:
- NICI country page http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/Cape_Verde/cape.htm
- NICI policy http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/country_profiles/Cape%20Verde/capol.htm
- NICI country profile/background (not recently updated; has links to other NICI pages) http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/country_profiles/Cape%20Verde/capab.htm
The APC page, "ICT Policy in Cape-Verde" has some information and links:
- In English: http://rights.apc.org/africa/index.shtml?apc=s21823e_1
- En français: http://afrique.droits.apc.org/index.shtml?apc=s21823e_1
2.4 ICT4D/E & ICT training / TIC pour le développement/éducation, et formation en TIC
WikiEducator has a table on enabling and constraining factors for ICTs in education http://www.wikieducator.org/ICT4Africa/Country_Report_Cape_Verde
2.5 Resources / Ressources
3. Localisation situation / Situation de localisation
3.1 Country web content / Contenu web du pays
3.2 Web content in indigenous languages / Contenu web en langues indigènes
3.3 Software localisation / Localisation de logiciel
Not aware of any software localisation activities.
3.4 Projects & organisations / Projets et organisations
3.5 Localisation policy / Politique de localisation
4. References / Références
APC, "ICT Policy in Cape-Verde," Africa ICT Policy Monitor, http://rights.apc.org/africa/index.shtml?apc=s21823e_1 ("Politiques de TIC en/au Cap Vert," Observatoire des politiques des TIC en Afrique, http://afrique.droits.apc.org/index.shtml?apc=s21823e_1
International Telecommunications Union (ITU). 2006. World Information Society Report 2006. Geneva: ITU. http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/worldinformationsociety/2006/wisr-web.pdf
______. 2004. African Telecommunication Indicators 2004. Geneva: ITU.
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), "Distribution of Top-Level Domain Names by Host Country, Jan 2007" http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/ops/ds/
Internet World Stats: Africa. 2006. http://internetworldstats.com/africa.htm
Leclerc, Jacques. L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde, "République du Cap-Vert," http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/afrique/Cap-Vert.htm
SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, "Languages of Cape Verde Islands," http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=CV
UNDP. 2006. ''Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis. Human Development Report 2006.'' New York: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). [Human development index Adult literacy rate (% ages 15 and older) (HDI) http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/statistics/indicators/3.html ]
UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa. 1985. African Community Languages and Their Use in Literacy and Education: A Regional Survey. Dakar: UNESCO.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), "The World Factbook: Cape Verde," https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cv.html
Vodafone. 2005. "Africa: The Impact of Mobile Phones." The Vodafone Policy Paper Series, Number 3, March 2005. http://www.vodafone.com/assets/files/en/GPP%20SIM%20paper.pdf
WikiEducator, "ICT4Africa/Country Report Cape Verde," http://www.wikieducator.org/ICT4Africa/Country_Report_Cape_Verde
Wikipedia, "Cabo Verde," http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabo_Verde
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