AICKM National Workshop Ends

The National AICKM Workshop ended this Wednesday 14th July 2010 (see older posts). Participants had the opportunity (as representatives of their institutions) to work on a Stakeholder Information Needs Analysis and draft the foundation to a National AICKMS for the agricultural sector.

Both need to be further developed and the workshop organisers are pleased to announce that the participants took (among others) the resolution to:
(i) Review, elaborate and finalise the Stakeholder Information Needs Analysis matrix.
(ii) Review, elaborate and finalise a National AICKMS document.

The reports will eventually be submitted to the Ministry of Agro Industry and Food Secutity and to the SADC. The finalised documents are expected to be tabled within 3-5 months time. It is also interesting to note that for the editing of the documents, participants will be using online Web 2.0 Tools, in this case, a WIKI.

The AICKMS implementation will certainly enable institutions to revisit their current operations and better serve their stakeholders by proper packaging of services.

While SADC intends to table a regional strategy on AICKM for member states, it would also be interesting to see whether participants of the workshop take the lead and apply AICKM at the level of their own institutions.