Friday, August 27, 2010

Web 2.0 Tools for Agriculture Research

The just ended FARA/FAO organised workshop, held at Palmwood Lodge in Lusaka's Churdley area drew participants from all The Zambia Agriculture Research Institute, The National Agriculture Information Service, The National Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research and The University of Zambia.The workshop introduced participants to various ICT skills, notably web 2.0 tools and web blogging and web creation.
The workshop was held from 23-27 August, 2010.

Participants featured enthusiastically through the end of the workshop, with each participant showing the two facilitators- Dr. Chisenga (FAO) and Mr. Dady Dembi (FARA) -that they were ready for the challenge of sharing agricultural information on the ZAR4DIN platform using web 2.0 tools.
Well, one can only hope for the best in this agricultural research endeavour.

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