District leaders in Teso and Central regions trained in web site and E-library management

Bright on a Monday afternoon, the RIC-NET/RWECO ICT team got on the wheels to Teso region to equip the District leaders with ICT skills.

The training that kicked off on a Tuesday 18^th -19^th June 2013 at Public Affairs Center (PAC) Uganda in Soroti town attracted District leaders from Soroti, Kaberamaido, Serere and Ngora. In attendance were the District Information officers, Records officers, District Planners among others.

The two days comprehensive training started with remarks and highlights from the PAC Executive Director Mr. Benson who welcomed the leaders for having honored the invitation and turned up for the training saying it was a good sign of public private partnership. He also welcomed the facilitators from RIC-NET who had gone to conduct the training.

The hands on training saw the leaders through website updating and E-library management which they appreciated and promised to use the E-platforms effectively to share information timely.

“We really liked the training and we hope it’s going to help us update our websites and share timely information” said one of the trainees. The trainees were taken through social media like twitter, skype and also blogging as another way of sharing information in time.

The four districts that attended the training appreciated the design of their District platforms. E-libraries at http://elibrary.serere.go.ug , http://elibrary.soroti.go.ug , http://elibrary.ngora.go.ug and http://elibrary.kaberamaido.go.ug . The districts promised to avail information and those that had it availed it to the technical staff and they were promised to have their websites up as soon as they are fed with data to be hosted at www.serere.go.ug in that order.

The training in numbers attracted 12 participants 10 male and 2 female.

To the central

Late evening of a Wednesday was another long route that led the ICT team to the central region ready for the training in Kiboga and Kayunga Districts.

The Kiboga training took place on 20^th -21^st June 2013 at Kiboga District headquarters in the Information office.

This attracted the District information officer, Assistant Chief Administrative Officer and the Records officer.

Same content as for Teso was administered to the Kiboga team which also appreciated the training.

Kayunga District received the same training from 24^th -25^th June 2013 at kayunga District headquarters. The training attracted 4 female and 1 male making a total of 5 participants.