Deadline: Differs with Country
Interested and passionate individuals are invited for a 5-day Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity. Participants will be introduced to selected web 2.0 applications and will learn how to use them hands-on. The Learning Opportunity will cover advanced online searching, getting information served via alerts and RSS, collaborating remotely using Google Drive, Dropbox, VoIP, online mapping and social media.
This Learning Opportunity forms part of CTA initiatives that support development partners in networking, accessing and disseminating information more effectively.
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation EU-ACP (CTA) has a mandate to facilitate access to and dissemination of information in the fields of agriculture and rural development in 78 countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP).
Participant’s responsibilities
- Accepted participants will be responsible for all costs related to their travel to and from the venue, their accommodation, breakfast and supper, their daily subsistence allowances, and for bringing their own WIFI-enabled laptop to the event.
Entitlements
- During each event, the organisers will provide lunch and refreshments and distribute copies of CTA publications and instructional material.
Programme of the Learning Opportunity
- Web 2.0 and Social Media: concepts and principles;
- Selective access to information via (i) advanced multilingual search options; (ii) RSS and (iii) automated alerts;
- Content curation: Tagging and Social Bookmarking;
- Photos for the web;
- Remote collaboration (e.g. GoogleDrive, Dropbox);
- Online conversations (Skype, Google Hangouts, Viber, Whatsapp);
- Online mapping (New Google Maps);
- Blogging (Blogger or WordPress);
- Micro-blogging (Twitter);
- Social networking (LinkedIn and Facebook), risks and mitigation measures;
- Online Communities of Practice;
- Web 2.0 and Social Media for Agri-business and marketing.
- Participants – Eligibility and responsibilities
Eligibility
- be computer literate and conversant with browsing the Internet;
- have regular access to a computer ( ownership of a computer is an advantage);
- be competent in the use of the English language;
- have an active e-mail account;
- be actively engaged in agriculture and rural development / natural resource management / biodiversity conservation in the domains of ICT for development (ICT4D), policies, markets; publishing, communication and media;
- be in a position to take along a WIFI-enabled laptop to the training;
- be a resident of host country.
- Participation in the Learning Opportunity is free of charge, but subject to acceptance by the organisers. 25 participants will be accepted for the event.
Application
Click on the appropriate link and scroll down to apply.
- Lilongwe, Malawi 01-05 September 2014
- Windhoek, Namibia 08-12 September 2014
- Roma, Lesotho 08-12 September 2014
- Ezulwini Campus, Ezulwini, Swaziland 15-19 September 2014
- Iwo, Osun State, Nigeria 22-26 September 2014
- Aiyura, Papua New Guinea 22-26 September 2014
- Aiyura, Papua New Guinea 22-26 September 2014
For more information, visit Web 2.0 and Social Media Learning Opportunity.
