ARDYIS Web 2.0 Training and Exchange Workshop

ARDYIS Web 2.0 Training and Exchange Workshop participants

The web 2.0 training workshop was organized and facilitated by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Technical Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CTA) in Nadi, Fiji at the Tanoa International Hotel. The training mainly focuses on youth and ways in which they can promote agriculture in means of collaborating information online with the use of information and communications technology (ICT). The training was officially opened by the Secretary, Ministry of Primary Industries, Mr Ropate Ligairi and remarks from  Dr Ken Cokanasiga, coordinator for Animal Health and Production (AH&P) from SPC.

Participants having a group discussion

There were 27 participants from all over the Pacific region under the Pacific state of SPC (Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu), and the training took place from the 16th to the 20th September 2013. 

In our training we learned about many things in regards to using social media to share and exchange information about something, this includes using Facebook, Twitter, Blogging and so forth. We were taught how to create agricultural blogs for our own countries to promote and portray information regarding agricultural standards and overviews for a targeted audience to follow up on. Blogging can simply be defined as a professional social media website where an individual records or post up information on a specific subject on a regular basis, where people can read and comment on. It is purposely designed to help people collaborate information online, but in our training its about sharing information regarding agriculture.