In Burkina Faso, the diverse ICTs' actors: state, associations, private sector and international cooperation institutions, produce an accompanying discourses. These discourses are about promotion, norms and prescriptions of uses. They are motivated by diverse issues, leadind into the conception of actors strategies to take full advantages of this promotion. The promotional discourses of the ICTs in the Burkina, is supporting the idea that these devices would contribute to the improvement of the living conditions of Burkinabe. This work confronts the real uses of Burkinabe with the actions of the promoters and the discourses in particular those of a prescriptive nature. The discussion here is to highlight the difference between promoted and real uses; to show what determines the " ICTs uses " of Burkinabe. It is about uses up in the direction of improving their living conditions or not, by understanding the potential contribution of these devices on their activities (private or professional), and not by an accompanying discourses. The various promoters of the ICTs in the Burkina are also users of these devices This work analyzes the uses of certain promoters and those of populations encountered. The sociocultural incidences of ICTs practices of the inhabitants Burkinabe are also analyzed here.
