Women for Development Alternatives

Capacity building of Savisthri staff on IT Advocacy and blog

designing Organized by Rule Of Law Forum

From 24th to 26th August 2011 in SAPSRI,Rajagiriya

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1. Introduction03

1.1 Objectives03

2. 24th August 2011-First Day of Programme04

2.1 IT Advocacy 04

3. 25th August 2011-Second Day of Programme04

3.1 Blog Designing04

4. 26th August 2011-Third Day of Programme05

4.1 Video Editing05

5. Importance of participating for this programme06

6 Participants for the Programme07

End of the programme

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1.Introduction

In recent years, the speedy, effective and global communication of

knowledge has created a new foundation for co-operation and teamwork,

both nationally and internationally. Therefore the information society

challenges the education system in drastically. The increasing role played

by information technology in the development of society calls for an

active reaction to the challenges of the information society.

Already, new and greater demands are being made as to the core

qualifications of individuals, as well as to their understanding and

knowledge of the consequences of the introduction of information

technology for the work and organisation of a company. Companies are no

longer forced to gather all their functions in one place. The knowledge-

intensive functions such as development and marketing can be sited in

countries where the labour market can supply highly educated

employees, whilst production itself can be moved to low wage countries.

The result is the efficient handling, processing, co-ordination and

administration of company resources, which is decisive for the

competitiveness of the company.In a society which is becoming

increasingly dependent on information and the processing of knowledge,

great demands are therefore made that the individual should have a solid

and broad educational foundation on which to build.

1.1Objectives

Ms.Inoma Karunathilake provided us an opportunity to participate for the

IT Advocacy programme which was conducted by Rule of law forum on

24th August up to 26th August 2011 at SAPSRI in Rajagiriya.

This opportunity actually made us to enhance our IT

knowledge for develop by means of our own and

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institutional vise integration in all activities on the working

desk and,

Through this empower the official efficiency to get

succeeded all level of programmes and we thoroughly

believe that the individual citizen must have an active and

critical attitude to developments and not passively allow

technological development to set the pace.

2 .24 th August 2011-First Day of Programme

Around 10.30 a.m programme started with Ms.Inoma’s impressive

introduction of Rule of Law Forum and her plans of first day programme.

Then she has given a stage to participants who represented from various

institutions to introduce themselves to others before initiating her

presentation on IT Advocacy.

Ms.Inoma sharing her ideas on IT with participants of the programme

2.1IT Advocacy-Ms.Inoma Karunatilake

She lined up her presentation as follow topics:

Strategy of online Advocacy

Mechanism for Advocacy

Type of Documentation

Role of the Internet

Designing a campaign

Target Audience

Information Security & Data Protection

3 .25 th August 2011-Second Day of Programme

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Second day of this programme was completed with most valuable

sessions on Blog Designing.It was actually made bulk of naval experiences

for all participants.

3.1Blog Designing-Mr.Jerad & Ms.Kumari from Meepura

Newsletter Publication

Throughout this session Mr.Jerad & Ms.Kumari, both explained clearly on blog designing with attractive practical vibrating.In their space they highlighted following steps as,

What is Blog? Aim of Blog Types of Blogs Indexes of Blogs Expansions of Blogs Usage of Blogs around the world and current status in Sri Lanka Sinhala Blogs How to manage the Blog Management of Blog Blog Settings Useful Web Site Addresses

Mr.Jerad And Ms.Kumari delivering their session

End of the day most of participants motivated to design new blog for them and they have received sufficient knowledge on how to maintain a blog in their personal and official status.

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In third day also all of participant contributed their all efforts to learn with practical session on Video Editing.

4.1Video Editing-Mr.Pathum Neranjana

Within his session he shared his views on video editing with us. His session is too practical and invited to produce video in personally with all participants. The day filled up with massive awareness to impose a video and video editing.

He covered following fields of video editing as,

video upload/Link Add picture to video Publish video

Mr.Pathum Advising on video editing

IT programme was ended up 5.30 p.m on 26th August 2011

5.Importance of participating for this programmeThis programme achieved us to,

access to variety of learning resources

immediacy to information

anytime learning

anywhere learning

collaborative learning

multimedia approach to education

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authentic and up to date information

access to online libraries

teaching of different subjects made interesting

educational data storage

distance education

access to the source of information

Multiple communication channels-e-mail, chat, forum, blogs, etc.

access to open courseware

Better accesses to specific fields as agricultural, fisheries, plantations,

HR and any other relevant sectors where we working with their

differentiations.

reduces time on many routine tasks

6.Participants from Savisthri

Ms.Shirani Rathnayake -Assistant Programmer

Ms.Samanthi Perera -Programme Manager

Report evolved by Samanthi Perera behalf of SAVISTHRI

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