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The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture (University of Mauritius) and the Food and Agricultural Research Council (FARC) is organising 2 workshops on Web 2.0 Learning opportunities in Mauritius on 9-13 July and 23-27 July respectively. For each workshop, 25 participants have been selected.

The Learning Workshops would consist of the following:

• Introduction to the participatory World Wide Web (Web 2.0) 
• Search Magic: How to conduct advanced multilingual online searches;
• Information Self Service: How to get selected information served to you via alerts and RSS feeds;
• Remote collaboration: How to develop content remotely using wikis and Google Docs; 
• Online mapping: How to locate your organisation and your projects on a online Map;
• How to communicate voice over the internet at no cost;
• Online publishing (micro-blogging and blogging);
• Professional / corporate social networking (LinkedIn and Facebook);
• Web 2.0 self-instruction (introduction to iMARK) 

The workshop will be launched officially on Monday 9th July 2012 at 09:15 (GMT+4) in the R.Burrenchobay Lecture Theatre (RBLT), University of Mauritius, by the Hon. Rajeshwar Jeetah, Minister of Tertiary Education, Science, Research and Technology. 

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