Jokes and laughter and high expectations

The training participants have made their first postings to their blogs. Links to all the blogs are on the right.

I truly recommend that you read the beautiful narration by Rose Haji, the most senior participant of the training, about how she felt to join the group of professionals of the younger generation who she thought would find it only natural to surf for their information and update their profiles in the digital networks.

But she wasn’t out of place. “It is a small group of 11 people with brains. We interact, participate and mostly share jokes and laughter!”

”Age ain’t nothing but a number. I am moving to dot com right from day one”, she concludes.

Here again you can find the posting of Bestina Magutu, news and current affairs editor at Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation TBC. She tells about some of the practical exercises we did during the opening day, booking flight tickets and finding other services online, as people in Europe have been doing already for some years, and now the same kind of services are gradually moving online here in Tanzania too.

Bestina says she enjoyed very much visiting the website Project Gutenberg, where one can read and download entire book classics as electronic files. One who agrees with that is Masembe Tambwe, weekend editor of the newspaper Daily News, who goes on to say that “much as the internet is a tool I use every day, there is still a lot that I don’t know. I plan to get as much as I can this week and will most definitely share this knowledge with mates and colleagues.”

Eleuter Mbilinyi, subeditor of The African, also shares his expectations for the coming days. “From today’s experience of the training, there is no doubt that at the end of this training I will be rich on the worldwide major sources of information and sophisticated techniques on how to effectively use the internet in executing this noble career.”