Techies club iii in Lira.

The event that took place on 2^nd and 3^rd October 2014 at 291 suits hotel in Lira District saw most ICT officers of several C4C projects walk away with several skills.

The workshop whose theme was “Computer maintenance and troubleshooting” was very interactive and participatory.

Mr. Andrew giving his presentation

The workshop that attracted officers from UNHCO, Computers for schools, LACCODEF the hosts, Health Child, I-Network, Diocese of Jinja, Pope Johns’ hospital-Aber (UCMB), and RWECO was facilitated by Mr. Andrew the Lecturer Makerere Business school and also an ICT consultant with CFSU.

He took participants into several sessions including among others, ICT management, ICT equipment maintenance, how to train others, Developing an Organisational ICT policy, Procurement, depreciation and disposal of ICT assets, : ICT support contract management and several practical sessions.

Participants at a practical session.

Pamela Kiria from I-Network also led a discussion on ICT and gender and several issues were discussed including why there are few ladies compared to males in the ICT sector and the way forward to bring more on board.

The project end users from Agwata Primary school presented the benefits and challenges they’ve had with the project where LACCODEF supported them with ICT equipment. It was a nice experience and later on day two the team visited Agwata primary school in Dokolo District 35kms from Lira town.

The team resolved to have the next techies in Kampala which will be the forth.