It was an educative session

My point of view regarding yesterday’s session

By Daniel Semberya

As it goes “Learning is a life time activity of which one is supposed to part it whenever he dies”. This strong statement has been proved through the ongoing training on how internet is very useful in this contemporary world, particularly to journalists in their day to day journalistic undertakings.

As statistics show that most Tanzanians are still behind in using internet in their daily activities compared to other East African partner states especially the Kenyans. Why? One: because of lack of awareness among the Tanzanians, I included of the importance of internet technology, even to some literate people. Second, because the technology came very late. It was only introduced to our country (Tanzania in this case), of most recently. So it needs time for education awareness of the importance of the internet.

For instance, in yesterday’s session the opening of the blogger information centre, the posting, the publishing and the like until one’s work appear on the website to be read by anyone in the global was actually “Mashikolo mageni”-means something totally new!

As a matter of fact the internet has multiplied the potential sources of news and information exponentially. Since many other media can now include newspapers and radio stations from all over the world.

I can assure you that until the end of this training I will be able to practically be able to search and access to facts, backgrounds from the website and other connections/links.

For that matter I managed to visit different websites during yesterday’s session such as: all Africa.com, Tanzania online, IPS Africa, www.cnn.com, www.reuters.com, the Daily Nation and etc.

In general, yesterday’s session was extremely well facilitated, participatory and live and understandable.