The training that started on Thursday 6th - 7th
Dec. 2012 was attended by District leaders from Gulu and kitgum and ACORD
staff. A total number of 16 participants attended this interactive two days
training at Kakanyero Hotel in Gulu Municipality.
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| Training Session |
With a bright Thursday morning, the participants were
introduced to the basics and fundamentals of ICT (web browsing). A number of
terms were explained to the participants which was like an ice breaker to the
rest of the training.
There was later a questions and answers session that was so
interactive and interesting and members consulted on a number of issues and
solutions were given by the facilitators accordingly.
The second session later characterized by an introduction of
web applications used to develop their websites sites was presented to them
among which was basics to Joomla since they (District leaders) are supposed to
update their sites on their own later after the end of the project in order to
sustain them and keep up to date information on the sites.
This was later followed by a number of practical skills
where they were showed how it works and how easy it is to use the application
to develop their online platforms.
Questions and clarifications were made by end of day and the
training ended at 5:00 pm given the heavy load that the facilitators had to
give to the participants.
Later in the evening the RIC-NET staff who were also the
facilitators in this case were given a platform by ACORD on 102 Mega FM in
Gulu town to explain to the entire Acholi region about the relevance of the
online platforms being developed in the “Enhancing Civic competence for Social
Accountability project” that is being run in the 25 Districts in the five
regions of Uganda.The project is jointly implemented by CEFORD, ACORD,RWECO, PAC and FHRI.
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| RIC-NET staff on Mega FM-Gulu |
Present for the talk show were Loum Benard from ACORD
(Project officer), Juma the radio presenter and moderator for the talk show,
Peter Ocen (Gulu District ICT Officer), Charles Asiimwe Sytems Admin.RIC-NET
and Yosia Baluku (ICTO-RIC-NET).
A number of issues were explained to the entire community of
Acholi which among others include, the history of the website project by UCC,
the home pages and how the social accountability project came in to offer
support after all had not gone on well previously.
A number of advantages for these online platforms to the
District administration, business community and the entire citizens of Acholi
were explained and among others included;
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Global publication of the Districts’
opportunities, potentials e.t.c
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Repository for the district information and thus
stored safely for long
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Districts adverts and current news updates on
time
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Timely and relevant information
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Easy access to public documents
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Help researchers get right information about the
status of the districts in which ever department e.t.c
Listeners called in later at the end of the show and gave
their views, others appreciated and others were also seeking for more
clarification and guidance and also others supplementing.
Day two started with
a recap of day one that was also another interactive and participatory one.
This indicated that the participants had grasped a number of issues from the
day one training.
Participants were later given more details of the
installation of joomla and later sites presented to them. They appreciated the
design of the sites and e-libraries that are hosted at www.kitgum.go.ug , www.gulu.go.ug , http://elibrary.gulu.go.ug/ , http://elibrary.kitgum.go.ug/ .
Later the District leaders gave comments, input and
suppliments on their sites what to change and what to improve. All changes were
noted and promised to be effected.
Members also appreciated the design of the e-libraries and
said it was much easier to interact and work with after being taken through the
session of login and updating them.
Later a session of the social media that has eased
communication and information sharing was presented to them. Skype, twitter
among others was introduced to the participants and promised to take them on
for easy information sharing.
Way forward
Since there was limited data for their sites they all
promised to avail the necessary information to have everything done for their
sites.
They also agreed on some login details for their e-libraries
to go and do practice
And that also incase of any technical issues they would not
hesitate getting back to us.
They also expressed a concern that the two days training was
not enough and that more trainings should be extended to individual districts.
In her closing remarks the Deputy Chief Administrative
officer Kitgum Ms Oroma Rhoda expressed
gratitude for the training and thanked ACORD that had brought the facilitators
on board for the wonderful training and support to the districts.
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| C.A.O Gulu giving closing remarks |
The function was later officially closed by the chief
Administrative officer Gulu Ms. Odwar Santa who expressed her sincere thanks for the
training and also said it was nice and good for the district leaders. She
challenged them to take on the responsibility and share with the rest of the
leaders when they go back. She also said the leaders should have gone with
enough skills since she had grabbed a number of things for the little time she
was there “for the little time I have sat here, I have been able to understand
and learn more. So for you who have been here for two days, I believe you
should grasped a lot”
She wished everybody a very safe journey back to their
destinations and thereafter a lunch on at the very hotel Kakanyero.
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| Participants pose for a group photo after the training |
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