ICTs Enabling Communication Opportunities for Grassroots
HIVOS,MSSRF and GKP have pioneered the concept of experience sharing between grassroots organizations through traveling workshops for Grassroots Organisations. These traveling workshops have helped organisations to understand various initiatives in ICT and development and also helped in various organizations adapting to the methodologies.
Encouraged by the success of such initiatives OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) (http://southasia.oneworld.net) a New Delhi-based civil society network that works to give voice to the voiceless through a network of people and groups is pleased to announce South to South Learning Exchange Programme ICTs Enabling Communication Opportunities for the grassroots between 18th March 24th March 2005.
Purpose of the Exchange Programme
1.Exchange of development perspectives between Asia & Africa
2.Understanding various initiatives in Asia & Africa in effective use of ICT tools to enable communications opportunities for the grassroots.
3.Understand the issues in developing tools for knowledge sharing in rural pockets.
4.Various options for encouraging communities to participate in knowledge sharing.
5.To develop an understanding and acquire skills on developing Audio content
Who should participate?
Programme officers and implementers of ICT-enabled development projects from Partner Organisations of OneWorld Africa, Latin America and India. We would expect participants to have some familiarity with IT and community development and they should be in a position to make immediate use of what they learn in the workshop in their projects/ programmes. Participation is requested from organisations in Africa, Latin America and India. There will be 15 participants in total for the programme.
Output
1. The workshop will help the participants to better integrate modern ICT in their development projects.
2.It will give them a perspective regarding various technologies involved in rural ICT
3.It will help them to blend ICT in the local knowledge management process.
4.Will help in understanding other tools in ICT apart from Internet like radio, telephone, newspaper etc.
For more Information:
African : Ms. Priscilla Jere, OneWorld Africa,
email: africa@oneworld.net,
priscilla.jera@oneworld.net
Latin America : Ms.Elizabeth Clarke, UMAL
email:
elizabeth@acceso.or.cr
India : Anuradha Rao, OneWorld South Asia
email:
t.n.anuradha@oneworld.net
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