UNESCO Organizes Web Training for African Journalists
24-06-2002 ()
- African journalists from radio, television and print media were trained in web search during a course provided via video conferencing that was organized by UNESCO and the World Bank last week. The journalists from Benin, Ivory Coast and Senegal were trained to use web resources for facilitating their work. Training sessions alternated with practical work so as to allow the trainees to test their newly acquired skills in the daily journalistic work.
The training programme, with exams at the end of each session, used the infrastructure of the distance learning center of the World Bank, and tapped the experiences of web journalist Julian Sher. It included the following elements:
· Organizing a web search
· Strategies for identifying reliable information (headlines, newspapers, radios, alternative news, etc)
· Strategies for identifying experts
· Use of web browsers
· Geographical and thematic search methods
· Human rights/Freedom of expression-on the Internet.
· Creation of web pages
Before training sessions each participant was invited to upgrade his/her own web skills to match with those of his/her fellows. These preliminary sessions, which aimed at introducing participants to the Internet in general, were based on the CD-ROM “Introduction to the Internet” prepared by UNESCO in cooperation with the “Association française pour le nommage d’Internet en cooperation” (AFNIC). Copies of the CD-ROM were freely distributed to participants in order to give them the opportunity to train other members of their editorial team.
The enthusiasm and the interest of the participants encouraged the organizers of the course to continue organizing this type of training as an efficient contributionto alleviate problems of access to information, particularly in developing countries.
· Organizing a web search
· Strategies for identifying reliable information (headlines, newspapers, radios, alternative news, etc)
· Strategies for identifying experts
· Use of web browsers
· Geographical and thematic search methods
· Human rights/Freedom of expression-on the Internet.
· Creation of web pages
Before training sessions each participant was invited to upgrade his/her own web skills to match with those of his/her fellows. These preliminary sessions, which aimed at introducing participants to the Internet in general, were based on the CD-ROM “Introduction to the Internet” prepared by UNESCO in cooperation with the “Association française pour le nommage d’Internet en cooperation” (AFNIC). Copies of the CD-ROM were freely distributed to participants in order to give them the opportunity to train other members of their editorial team.
The enthusiasm and the interest of the participants encouraged the organizers of the course to continue organizing this type of training as an efficient contributionto alleviate problems of access to information, particularly in developing countries.
Related themes/countries
· Training of Media Professionals: News Archives 2002
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