Friday 10 March 2006, was historic for the Africa University Outreach Training Unit called AUITTC!
The mission of AUITTC is to bridge the digital divide in Africa through ICT Training. We believe that skills development is critical if civil society, professionals and organisations are to integrate technolgy effectively and achieve efficiences in their work, business processes and day to day lives. We believe that an elightened Civil Society will be able to influence Policy Development that will promote true ICT Development in Africa. It is meaningless for technical people to demand bandwidth, telecomms infrastructure and access to technology - it must be the users of the technology that must do this. Collective lobbying for issues that hinder the uptake of technology will be more effective if Civil Society understands the benefits of technology.
15 Medical Doctors from Manicaland converged at the Windsor/Msasa Building along Herbert Chitepo Street in Mutare at 5:30pm to start the first Session of their training. The whole Programme for the doctors is entitled "Integrating ICT's in the Medical Profession".
The delivery of this programme is unique because the approach is to find out how doctors work, what information is relevant to them and then give them ICT training that is relevant to their work. Programmes such as ICDL are good, but the focus is on getting a licence for most participants. What is important is for us to churn out someone who will go and practically apply what they have learnt to their work place. It is important that this program achieves visible changes in the way that doctors work.
The outline of the programme is currently:
The mission of AUITTC is to bridge the digital divide in Africa through ICT Training. We believe that skills development is critical if civil society, professionals and organisations are to integrate technolgy effectively and achieve efficiences in their work, business processes and day to day lives. We believe that an elightened Civil Society will be able to influence Policy Development that will promote true ICT Development in Africa. It is meaningless for technical people to demand bandwidth, telecomms infrastructure and access to technology - it must be the users of the technology that must do this. Collective lobbying for issues that hinder the uptake of technology will be more effective if Civil Society understands the benefits of technology.
15 Medical Doctors from Manicaland converged at the Windsor/Msasa Building along Herbert Chitepo Street in Mutare at 5:30pm to start the first Session of their training. The whole Programme for the doctors is entitled "Integrating ICT's in the Medical Profession".
The delivery of this programme is unique because the approach is to find out how doctors work, what information is relevant to them and then give them ICT training that is relevant to their work. Programmes such as ICDL are good, but the focus is on getting a licence for most participants. What is important is for us to churn out someone who will go and practically apply what they have learnt to their work place. It is important that this program achieves visible changes in the way that doctors work.
The outline of the programme is currently:
- Basic ICT Literacy
- Buying Computer Hardware; Evaluating Suppliers; The CIMAS System
- Communication and Research (Medline; HINARI, Use of Internet, Networks; Email)
- ICT Applications for Medical Practitioners (Statistical Tools; Databases [e.g. Care2X;] Presentations; WordProcessing; Accounting Tools; Spreadsheets)
- Planning for the Use of Technology (budgeting for technology, technology implementation plans for small businesses)
- Real Life Case Study of Implementing Technology in a selected Doctor's Surgery.
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