20 Ni Vans Attend a Training on the Use of Web Online Applications
by Jean-Baptiste Calo
Twenty
Ni- Vanuatu from various government line agencies and NGOs have attended a 5 days training on the use of web online
applications in order to encourage information sharing.
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| 20 Ni-Vanuatu participants attended a 5 days workshop on web 2.0 and the use of web online applications. |
The
workshop consisted of training the participants to use web2.0 online
applications such us Google and all its features (Google +, Google
Drice, Google Map, Google Docs, Google Video Hangouts and Videocalls..),
including the does and dont's when you're using social media such as
Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and Youtube…
The
participants were also taught how to download and use Skype application. They also lear how to
create, design and use a blog.
Over
200 million people in the world are using web 2.0 or social media tools
in the exercise of their profession and also for their private use.
With the fast
development of Information Communication Technology throughout the world, social media has become so overwhelmingly used by all the generations even in Vanuatu urban centers such as Port-Vila and Luganville and their outskirt areas since the opening of the
telecommunication market in 2008.
In
her opening remarks on Monday October 13th , the first Political
Advisor for the Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture , Emily Tumukon
stated that: “Vanuatu
is a young state as far as information and communication technology
(ICT) is concerned and the development of ICT is very important for the
socio-economic growth of the country’.
Mrs
Tumukon delivered the opening speech on behalf of the Honourable David
Tosul, the Vanuatu Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry,
Fisheries and Biosecurity (MALFFB).
She
stated that Areas of improvement are to have the Ministry officials
trained properly in using and managing the current ICT facilities and
also training farmers to use the technology that can be beneficial to
them.
Mr
Hanington Tate, Director of Forestry, believes that new ICT tools such
as web 2.0 can promote agricultural and forestry information to rural
and remote communities of Vanuatu. He further added that participants at
the workshop will benefit from the web 2.0 training and could as
trainers in the next web 2.0 workshop is scheduled for this year and
early next year.
He
added that this type of workshop also offers a platform where
participants from the government line agencies and those representing
different stakeholders can come together to share their experience and
eventually to find out how they can collaborate by making use of each
others’ network in order to better reach and serve the people of the
country.
The
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) in collaboration with the
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) promotes
the training on web 2.0 and social media to increase awareness among
development actors on appropriate, low cost and simple web applications.
The
training workshop focuses on web online tools in the context of
development work and is addressed to stakeholders actively engaged in
agriculture and rural development / natural resource management in the
domains of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for development,
policies and markets, publishing, communication and media.
Sponsored
by the ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation
(CTA), the event, titled “Web 2.0 for Development and Social Media
Learning Opportunity”, is undertaken by the Ministry of Agriculture,
Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Biosecurity (MALFFB) in collaboration
with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), and the Office of
the Government’s Chief Information Officer.
The
training workshop funded by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and
Rural Cooperation under ACP-EU (CTA), is facilitated by Anju Mangal and
Miriama Kunawave Brown took place at the conference room of the Office
of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) in Port-Vila.
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