National Workshop on Agricultural Information Communication Knowledge Management Strategy

Our readers will recall that last week, the Faculty of Agriculture organised and hosted an eye-opener training on Web 2.0 Collaborative Tools. This week it will host yet another important workshop: A National Workshop on Agricultural Information Communication Knowledge Management (AICKM) Strategy development.

The ICART Project, of the SADC-FANR, in collaboration with the FARC is organising a National Workshop on (AICKM). Spread over 3 days (12th to 14th July 2010), the workshop will be held at the University of Mauritius.

The workshop aims at paving the way for the development of a National Strategy on AICKM. Under the ICART Project, national AICKM workshops have already been held in the Seychelles, Zambia and Swaziland. It is expected that the outcome of the national workshops will be integrated into a Regional AICKM Strategy.

We hope to follow with the details of what is AICKM (following the workshop). It has so many virtues. But be it from a management or operational perspective it will definitely shape the future of agriculture. It will certainly optimise, if not reinvent, the way our institutions operate and deliver information and knowledge products and services to our stakeholders in agriculture.

The organising committee acknowledges the need and potential of AICKM and they are proud that this initiative is being driven at the regional level (SADC) by a son of our Motherland (K Bheenick- formerly Lecturer at the FoA and Programme Manager at the FARC).

Many VIPs are expected at the opening ceremony on Monday 12th July. Among them, would be the Hon. Minister of Agro Industry and Food Security (S Faugoo) and the Coordinator of ICART Project (C Tizikara) from the SADC.