[UgaBYTES] Network leaders resolve to strengthen online community

[Nasikye Esther]

Hullo telecentre friends,

East Africa network leaders yesterday resolved to build a strong online
telecentre community through improving the online knowledge sharing
platforms in the region.
During the second part of the discussions on the first day of the network
leaders staff exchange currently taking place at UgaBYTES offices in
Kampala,   the network leaders from Rwanda Telecentre Network (RTN), Burundi
Community Telecentre Network (BCTN), Tanzania Telecentre Network (TTN) and
Kenya Network of Telecentres (Kentel) agreed to have national mailing lists
alongside the UgaBYTES mailing list which is so far looked at as a global
mailing list.

The national mailing lists will help to cover issues of language and will
facilitate discussion of challenges at a national level.

The network leaders also agreed to have websites for their networks and
improve the look and feel of those already existing by making them user
friendly, interactive and dynamic.

The RTN and Kentel websites will be improved to allow users submit content
through blogs. The Tanzania Telecentre Network and the Burundi Community
Telecentre Network don't have websites yet.

>>Resolutions:

 UgaBYTES will lead the website development process over the next three
months.

To ensure that there is continuous updating of the websites, network leaders
committed to having two persons in charge of each website. These two people
will be charged with the responsibility of ensuring content flows across
websites, sensitization of the community on website usage and publicizing
the websites.

This team of ten (at regional level) will meet every 3rd of the month to
discuss challenges and collaborate on content management issues on the
websites. UgaBYTES will facilitate this role for the time being.

>>Linkage with international websites

The network leaders committed the team of the ten resource persons to ensure
they create links with other established portals like telecentre.org

Some of the linkage will be done through RSS feeds, having a summary of the
best stories on the websites posted to the mailing lists and publicising the
best content on the websites through the Telecentre Times and other
platforms.

The discussion on creating a vibrant eco system continued this morning with
the community engagement plan taking centre stage.

Details of this will be coming up

Cheers








-- 
Esther Nasikye
Community Content Facilitator
UgaBYTES Initiative
Plot 2218 Ggaba Road
Kampala, Uganda
Tel: 25641370163
skype:esther.nasikye
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