As the central role of RIC-NET to promote the use of ICT in development work, yet this morning of 27th November 2012 another tool was introduced to the partners who attended a training at st Joseph's inn Virika in Fort-Portal town. with participants drawn from RIC-NET, RWECO, Guide radio in kasese & Life Fm in kabarole. The trainers guided the partners on how the TRAC FM is used,according to Wouter,
facilitator opens the session at the training
TRAC FM is a soft ware that enables active public debate and participation of citizens in monitoring and reporting on issues of public service delivery. with the soft ware, listeners contribute to the debates during the radio talk shows through a toll free sms line. in the case of Rwenzori listeners will text to 8585 on Life Fm, Guide Radio and Voice of kamwenge Guide, to give their opinions on the topics that will be generated by the CSOs.The trainer also explained that TRAC FM has a binding effect with the listeners to the extent that it can disaggregate the respondents in terms of age, sex, location and occupation. patricipants also discussed practical issues in servive delivery affecting the citizenry in the Rwenzori region as poor water facilities, detoriating education standards among others and how such problems can practically be transformed to an opinion poll . RIC-NET partners will generate opinion topics from monitoring the service delivery issues that highly affect the citizens in the Rwenzori region.
While closing the training, the Executive Director RIC-NET, Mr.Murugahara John mentioned that TRAC FM is meant to enrich CSOs radio programs making them more interractive compared to the past times where would refer to the number of listeners as many people without the exact statistics . he challenged participants to strart engaging the tool in the CSOs radio programs as soon because its easy to use and even at the end of the year CSOs can refer to it while compiling their annual reports.
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