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TWO-DAY ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON ICTs, TRADE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH:

TWO-DAY ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON ICTs, TRADE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: 25TH _26TH JUNE 2007, ACCRA GHANA participating in a two-day roundtable discussion based on the study: ICTs, Trade and Economic Growth. organised by the Government of Ghana in conjunction with United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the Canadian e-Policy Resource Centre (CePRC) at Alisa Hotel, Ridge

Speaking Web2fordev Conference

Speaking at Web2fordev Conference www.web2fordev.net on “Empowering journalists with online tools: making a case for online training” Abstract and description There is no doubt that journalists and the media needs urgent training in online tools in order to ride the tide with the information revolution. Unfortunately the cost of training of journalists remains high in context of resources and time. One solution to this challenge is designing and implementing low to free online training for journalists in online tools. The key advantage of this option is that journalists are going to be using the very tool they are learning about in their online class plus they do not need to take leave from work. The International Institute for ICT Journalism (penplusbytes) is implementing an online course for journalists in a wide range of topics including knowledge management for the newsroom, blogging and web 2.0. This case study shows and tells how the various online tools were used