May 19, 2014
National Forum calls for set up of Ethiopian Dairy Board
A first National Dairy Forum was organized this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Scientists, experts, representatives of farmer cooperatives and farmers, from the private sector as well as non-governmental and international organizations, attended the Forum.
On behalf of the state minister, Berhe G/Egziabher, director of the Animal and Plant Health Regulatory Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture, opened the meeting. He mentioned that although Ethiopia is highly dependent on animal production and agriculture, the dairy sector has not been given sufficient attention. To enhance the dairy sector, he called for good marketing strategies and improved linkages among private-sector actors, non-governmental organizations and the government.
Following the various presentations, participants formed groups to discuss three topics: capacity building and research, dairy value chain development and policy, and institutional arrangements for dairy development. Key issue emerging from the groups were a lack of coordination and leadership and the need for an Ethiopian…
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October 21, 2011
Web 2.0 learning opportunity in Ethiopia ’empowering’ for participants
A five-day web 2.0 training was conducted from May 23-27, 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The training was organized by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA).
Participants came from Government offices, Universities, the United Nations, Non-Governmental and International Organizations with various areas of specialization.
The training began with introductions from each trainee. Along with the introduction, each of the trainees was requested to share their expectations from the training.
The training covered the following modules:
- Introduction to Web 2.0
- Selective access to information: Advanced search, Google Alerts, RSS
- Remote collaboration
- Online mapping
- VoiP
- Micro-blogging and blogging
- Professional and corporate social networking (LinkedIn and Facebook)
- Introduction to iMARK module “Web 2.0 and social media for development”
Lots of research is conducted in many universities and organizations but it is not extensively communicated or shared. This is where the learning opportunity enabled the participants to socialize, network, collaborate, communicate and share knowledge among themselves and for their organizations. In addition, it created stronger linkage and collaboration between different organizations.
At the closing, participants explained that the training was very empowering – helping them to create and share content and collaborate in the production and dissemination of information.
Many outputs from the training are online, examples include:
February 7, 2011
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