It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Web 2.0 for Gambia blog. This is the first of two courses planned for Gambia. On behalf of my colleague facilitator Mrs Beran Gillen, I wish to thank the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) for organising this course in Gambia, a serene and peaceful country embraced by the sea.
One of the defining characteristics of the 21st century is the globalisation and democratisation of Information. The world is fast shrinking. Some say it has become a global village. But in the wake of dramatic advances in technological innovation, it is fast becoming a global hamlet. Not only are we able to send static email and pictures, we are even able to ‘see’ and know the (dynamic) thoughts of another person half way across the world in an instant – in micro seconds, through micro blogging. Such is the power of user-generated content. Such is the power of Web 2.0! For us to contribute meaningfully to the growth of our organisations and the larger society with its myriads of developmental challenges, we must as 21st century citizens, key in to this information revolution. It is for this reason that CTA is organising this Web 2.0 training workshop.
You have been selected to participate with the hope that you will in turn train others in your institutions, department, home and neighbourhood knowing that sustainable development can be achieved by sharing knowledge. Sharing is at the heart of Web 2.0 and you will be doing great injustice to the philosophy behind this workshop by hoarding any information that you take from here.
We believe this workshop will be an opportunity for all participants to improve and radically change the way they work and collaborate. The significance of holding this workshop in the University of The Gambia (UTG) is not lost on us being as it were, a tertiary institution where research is done as a matter of course. We implore you to make good use of the tools you have learned and those you are yet to learn in your research and collaboration efforts. Use them well, use them wisely.
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