Wednesday, 17 April 2013

WEB 2.0 LEARNING OPPRTUNITY WORKSHOP

The Web 2.0 Learning Workshop  was hosted by the CSIR-INSTI, Accra from 15-19 April, 2013. The workshop facilitator is Mr. Justin Chisenga from FAO, Ghana Office. The workshop covered the following areas:
  • Introduction to the participatory World wide Web (Web 2.0)/Social Media
  • Developing Social Media strategy
  • Micro-Blogging using Twitter
  • Blogging with Blogger
  • Remote collaboration using wikis/Google Docs
  • Content Licensing: Creative Commons
  • Professional and Social Networking
  • Infographics and Word Clouds
 The web 2.0 Tools and approaches are radically changing the way we create, share, collaborate and publish digital information  through the internet. Participatory Web 2.0 for development is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and online collaboration for development.The Web 2.0 presents us with new opportunities for change as well as challenges that need to be better understood and and grasp.

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