The training participants have posted their comments and reviews about what we have done the previous days.
Here’s a posting of Njonjo Mfaume about the programme on Wednesday when we moved on to more practical fact-finding exercises. Here’s also a short summary by Eleuter Mbilinyi about the day we went through some useful tips to remember before going surfing for information in the web. Here Rose Haji explains some of those search tips in more detail.
On Thursday morning, we also had a visit to the training by Jussi Nummelin, Second Secretary from the Embassy of Finland in Dar es Salaam. Jussi is the person at the Finnish embassy in charge of press relations and cooperation with NGO’s and the civil society. In his short address, he underlined to the training participants the importance of the internet in today’s media and modern life in general, but reminded that one also has to be critical towards the information found, because as we know, anyone with some basic computer skills can publish to the web whatever he or she likes, sometimes even without proper knowledge. Comments by Njonjo Mfaume can be found here, and here’s another nice summary by Eleuter Mbilinyi.
Last night, we were all also invited to a reception at the Finnish ambassador’s residence in Oysterbay. It was a relaxed and nice occasion and probably very useful for networking for both the media people and the folks at the embassy and other stakeholders. Many thanks to the ambassador, Mrs Sinikka Antila, for hosting the event. I will try to trace some photos from the reception and publish later.
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