April 28, 2022

DREAM11 S’APPUIE SUR LES DONNÉES DE VOLT ACTIVE DATA POUR ENGAGER 130 MILLIONS D’UTILISATEURS DANS L’IPL 2022

La plus grande plateforme de sports de fantaisie au monde a annoncé l’expansion récente de son partenariat avec Volt Active Data sur la lancée d’un succès mesurable.

BEDFORD, Massachusetts, 28 avril 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Volt Active Data, la seule plateforme de données d’entreprise conçue pour répondre aux exigences en temps réel des sociétés de jeux de grande envergure et des sociétés de technologie à fortes transactions actuelles, a annoncé aujourd’hui que Dream11, la plus grande plateforme de sports fictifs du monde, a étendu son contrat avec Volt.

Dream11 compte plus de 130 millions d’utilisateurs actifs et est déjà prête à gérer en production plus de 10 millions d’utilisateurs simultanés aux heures de pointe. Dream11 a initialement commencé avec Volt lors de la saison 2018 de l’IPL, et après avoir constaté le succès de la technologie (en partie grâce à la faible latence, au débit élevé et à l’assurance de disponibilité que fournit la plateforme Volt), elle a décidé d’approfondir sa relation avec Volt et d’élargir son utilisation de la plateforme Volt Active Data.

« C’est une situation gagnant-gagnant pour Dream11 et Volt », a déclaré David Flower, PDG de Volt Active Data. « L’expansion représente non seulement une autre validation de la plateforme Volt Active Data en tant que leader de la technologie des données en temps réel, mais elle change également la donne pour Dream11, car cela va essentiellement assurer l’avenir de leur plateforme pour la croissance explosive qu’ils connaissent et continueront de connaître ».

Volt fournit la précision, la fiabilité et les performances exigées par les millions de fans de sport qui cherchent à participer à des concours fantaisistes pendant l’IPL. Que ce soit entre amis ou parmi un million d’autres fans en compétition pour montrer leurs compétences et leurs connaissances du cricket, la faible latence de Volt, même en cas d’énormes pics de trafic (juste après le lancement du jeu), permet à Dream11 d’offrir la meilleure expérience de fantaisie aux fans et de devenir le choix numéro un en Inde pour les sports de fantaisie.

« La saison 2022 de l’IPL promettant d’établir de nouveaux records dans tous les domaines, nous savions que c’était le moment idéal pour intensifier notre relation stratégique avec l’équipe de Volt Active Data », a déclaré Amit Sharma, directeur technique de Dream11. « Chez Dream11, une excellente expérience utilisateur, une approche axée sur les données et une technologie de pointe sont toujours au cœur de nos préoccupations. Le défi du modèle de données auquel nous sommes confrontés pendant l’IPL est très nuancé et Volt est la seule plateforme que nous avons trouvée qui peut nous aider à surmonter ces défis techniques ».

À propos de Volt Active Data

Volt Active Data permet aux applications d’entreprise d’ingérer, de traiter et d’agir sur les données en quelques millisecondes pour exploiter de nouvelles sources de revenus et prévenir les pertes de revenus. Avec des clients de premier plan dans les télécommunications, la finance, les jeux et bien d’autres secteurs verticaux, la plateforme Volt est positionnée de manière unique pour être la technologie de référence de toute entreprise cherchant à tirer pleinement parti de la 5G, de l’IoT et de tout ce qui suivra. En savoir plus sur voltactivedata.com.

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April 28, 2022

Initiation Rites in the Kunama Ethnic Group

The Kunama ethnic group are one of the early inhabitants of Eritrea. They speak Kunama, which belongs to the Nilo-Saharan language group, and live in an area that is suitable for farming and rearing animals. The Kunama ethnic group is classified into four clans — Shuwa, Karawa, Gurma, and Serma.

Each clan has its own symbol of identification. The Shuwa are identified by a hoopoe, the Gurma by the trunk of an elephant, the Serma by the horn of a bull, and the Karwa by the moon. Every member of a clan hangs the symbol of their clan on the wall of the entrance to their hut.

Just like the other Eritrean ethnic groups, the Kunama have their own distinct culture and customs. Traditional Kunama community was matrilineal, a distinct attribute in comparison to the other Eritrean ethnic groups. Women had traditionally more authority than men, giving them an upper hand in decision-making within the family and within the community.

In the Kunama ethnic group as is the case in other ethnic groups, marriage is sacred. Furthermore, it is done with the will and consent of both partners. Families never force their daughters to marry someone they don’t want.

In arranged marriages, rare these days as forced marriage is banned in Eritrea’s modern laws, the mother took the lead in asking for the hands of a girl to be married to her son. Accompanied by her sisters, the mother goes to the would-be-bride’s parents house to ask for their daughter’s hand. After agreeing to forward the proposal to their daughter, the parents determine the next meeting date and bid the visitors farewell. When the would-be-bride accepts the proposal, her family and that of the would-be-groom’s start making preparations for the engagement and marriage ceremonies.

Unlike other ethnic groups in Eritrea, in the Kunama ethnic group the newly-wed spend their honeymoon at the bride’s parents’ house. This is done in order for the bride to be given very good care by her family. Three days after the wedding, the newly-wed are given gifts known as Anjiba Teda. The father and uncles of the bride offer cattle to the newlywed.

In many ethnic groups, an initiation rite was performed to mark the transition of young boys to manhood. In the Blen ethnic group, for instance, boys went through what is known as Shingelot as initiation rites. Similarly, young boys in the Kunama ethnic group undergo through Ana Ella when they turn 16. A fading ritual these days, Ana Ella was performed in September and its main purpose was to determine the physical and mental fitness of the young boys to be men.

Teenagers can be identified by their haircuts, which also reveals whether a young boy has successfully gone through the initiation rites. Those who successfully perform the initiation rites were allowed to grow their hair long or braid it if they want to. And those who had not passed the initiation rites or have not reached the right age to go through the rituals had their hair shaved on two sides of their head and can easily be identified.

Ana Ella involved many physical activities such as walking long distances, swimming in rivers and being flogged by a whip made of animal skin to test the physical and mental endurance of those being initiated. Ana Ella is said to have been completed after those being initiated go through the physical and mental pain for four to five days. Those who have successfully gone through the initiation rites are treated as fully grown men who can marry, rear cattle, and participate in the affairs of their community by giving opinions and by standing witness in front of the village assembly.

The Kunama ethnic group has a peculiar way of bidding the dead farewell. They wash the dead bodies and adorn them with gems. If an old woman or man dies, their body is escorted by a group of people singing. If a woman’s or man’s spouse dies, the widow or the widower mourns the deceased at home but does not attend the funeral.

The Kunama ethnic group are known for their dances. One of the most loved and respected dances is Kundra which is performed once a year in a thanks-giving sort of a ceremony. Kundra is performed in September in some places and at the end of December in some others. The songs played and the musical instruments used during the thanks-giving ceremony are used only on that occasion. The musical instruments used are giba and gila, which are made of a horn and hamham, hollowed and dried skin of a gourd, and no drums are allowed.

Source: Ministry of Information Eritrea

April 28, 2022

“I Feel like I Stayed Behind to Share their Stories,” Artist John Meira

Meet Yohannes Habtegerghish, aka John Meira, a comedian whose name has been shinning in the art industry over the years. Yo¬hannes went to Sawa in the third round and got the experi-ence of the place while it was in its infancy. Yohannes and his colleagues were the ones who went to the battlefields to defend their nation when the TPLF war of aggression was launched in 1998. He is an artist who wants to share stories of the brave Eritreans, his friends, who died defending their nation. Over the years, he has worked as a journalist, a comedian, a researcher in oral folk tales, and an event organizer.

• Thank you for being with us today, John. Let me take you back to the time when you went to Sawa. Tell us your memory?

I remember back in those days most of my friends had gone to Sawa before me. I always heard stories about their experiences there and read their letters from Sawa. That has always excited me somehow. I really wanted to try sleeping outside and living with many people. That was my idea of Sawa at the beginning. That is why I went to Sawa with this whole urge of becoming a real man. Well, getting there, it was amazing to see that many people from across the country that came from different backgrounds and customs just blended in. During the six month military training, we learned about everyone’s culture and got a lifetime friendship. To be honest, I still remember almost every one of my team mates’ first and last names.

• Is that where you started your career as an artist?

I clearly had a passion for art growing up. People around me acknowledged my artistic sides as I was the one telling jokes and dancing all the time. But it was when I was assigned to do my national service in the 271st division in Qarora, after the military training in Sawa, that I was finally recognized as an artist. Even there, we always had a strict schedule since we were at the border; we managed to organize entertaining programs. Later on, they wanted us to form a cultural troupe and I was one of the people where I actually wrote a play I remembered from a stage performance. People thought I wrote the piece and they applauded me. Afterward, I became a famous artist at the division and that kind of support made me believe that I could do better.

• John, you took part in the 3rd offensive. What do you remember about it?

In 1997 we had been sent home after completing our national service duties and began to live normal lives. But when TPLF regime launched a war of aggression against Eritrea in May 1998, most of us had to go back to the army and defend our nation. I participated in almost every battlefield during the war. The first battle we got in was at Quni qunito, one of the most dreadful as it was the very first battle for my generation and everything was just shocking. We lost 32 people in our unit. Another one was the seven-day battle we had in Ghirme where I was injured the first day and that, too, was a battle that took many lives. Eritreans have shared a long history of pain and amazing stories of heroic deeds of our fighters. I tried to keep a diary during the war and documented few of the things that I saw.

• Please, tell me about your artistic journey after the war was over?

When I started to read my diaries to my team mates, I got a good response. Then I started publishing articles in the 271st division’s magazine. I later on sent my articles to a Tigrigna newspaper at the time, Admas. I started accepting myself as a writer and an artist, and I was sending articles to Dmtsi Hafash radio and Hadas Eritrea, Tigrigna newspaper. My articles always focused on shedding some light to stories of heroes who were at the battlefields. I believe that I stayed behind them to tell their stories honestly. I have a complete book ready to be published.

Besides, I had an opportunity to take journalism lessons that have shaped me as a writer. And that allowed me to meet artists working diligently in the industry. Over the years, I have been fortunate to act in more than 40 short films and around 20 feature films with the most talented artists in Eritrea. I am currently acting in a sitcom, Enda Zimam. The series initially began during the partial lockdown, which was challenging to do. But we have managed to keep on producing the films by following the Ministry of Health guidelines regarding Covid-19. It is an interesting comedy that highlights different issues every weekend which the public appreciates.

• Anything you would like to say at the end, John Meira?

I am thankful for everyone who has been on my side. I love my fans and I always welcome their comments and criticism. Also, I want to remind every young Eritrean to lead a purposeful life. As Eritreans, we have a great culture and I hope that everyone acknowledges it and work for it.

Source: Ministry of Information Eritrea