Web 2.0 Training and Exchange Workshop

PACIFIC YOUTHS TRAINED IN WEB TOOLS

This week a group of youths from the Pacific who engage directly with agriculture are being trained with web tools and how they can be used for information sharing in their field of work. A wealth of knowledge is being gained specifically with Google plus, blogging, climate change in agriculture portals, privacy settings in social media tools. Social media tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, twitter,etc.

These deep insights are being learned through practical discussions and debates helping individual delegates and live exercises. The youths are enjoying this opportunity to learn this tools which is widely used in the web and how they can effectively used in their context.

Participating countries include PNG, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Solomon, Vanuatu, and Fiji. The participants are mostly agricultural offices a nd some IT personnel also.

Interestingly delegate is an IT Manger from PNG and we were amazed when he presented on a mobile solution he developed and how that technology is address time and money consumption levels in his organisation. It has minimized paper work and all information gathered is on real time without delay considering the geographical factor in PNG.

I was invited to present on what work I was doing in agriculture and in its relation to ICT. Well as an advocate for organic I was moved by the interest shown by the delegates and also them being keen in using web tools to reach out to their target audience.
I discussed the issues I faced using ICT' along with its impacts on the work I do.

Organics in the pacific is slowly gaining momentum in its awareness as the delegates are more familiar with what is involved in it. They really liked how the blog is being laid out, the content and the passionate spirit behind it all.

This delegates are sponsored by IFAD, GIZ, and SPC. This program is for one week and each delegate will need to create a blog and present to the group by Friday to test their understanding on this web tool.