Track 1 Report on Day 4 (28 Feb 2008)
Michael skill shared his experience in database design (http://www.mekongict4d.org/wiki/doku.php?id=information_management_v&s=database) and used the track project questionnaire to be part of his workshop too. The session was conducted in workshop style and participants was participating with much interest and it stretched over the break and continued till noon time. Participants then started working on the track project.
Track 1 Report on Day 3 (27 Feb 2008)
Bobby introduced to the booklet produced by TTC called Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design. The session stressed the importance of designing information after analysis for the consumption of the target audience.
After the information design session, the track was split into 4 groups again to discuss the title for the track project. The track project should involve the information cycle which means participants will collect, process data and present the information of the findings. Each groups came out with different ideas but generally, they were along the line of social networking of the participants of the ICT camp. So the title of the project is “My ICT Social Networking”. A small team was formed to generate the questionnaire draft. For discussion in the morning of Day 4.
The 2nd half of the track session started with Klaikong and Virak presenting the human rights bulletin system, Martus. Klaikong showed the general info on how Martus works and Virak shared his experience on implementing the Martus. The discussion after the presentation was lively and a problem on data sensitivity was raised in the case of releasing certain data from the Martus server into the Internet.
The session then moved on to project management tools. Bobby introduced a few useful tools for project management and managed to demonstrate how to use eGroupWare.
Track 1 Report on Day 2 (26 Feb 2008)
Information Security Firstly, Bobby facilitated the first part of the session sharing about the information security especially about the information security of organization. He tried to point out the importance and value of the data is directly related to the method of security solution. The 3 important challenges when we apply the information are as follows;
→ Security slow down the work * Running antivirus absolve more computer resources, * It takes time to scan the email
→ Act more work * To maintain updates of antivirus definition
→ Difficult to remember * To do updates regular updates * To scan the files regularly Secondly, the track member discussed that the policy documents of the organization should be produced in very simple way. Virus protection and Backup system is an essential to protect the information. Backup can be done by each individuals and organization should have centralized backup facilities. It’s also good to have responsible person to handle the issue. Affection of internet and computer Thirdly, the facilitator explained that the thread between internet and physical world is the same but there are 3 major differences. → Automation * Even though this function of computer is making very small thread of virus on stand alone PC, it becomes a big problem in a short time with the computers connected to internet.
→ Action on distance * If someone wants to steal something, it does not need to be there because of the internet capabilities.
→ Technique propagation * If someone wants to steal something, they have to learn in the past. Now, it can be easily done by using the codes distributed on the internet. Then, the discussion part continued with the following factors → The software manufacturer can’t be sued on the security breach.
→ The software manufacturer is not responsible for security.
→ The same to the antivirus software manufacturer.
→ It is only the responsibility of the one who use the software.
→ What the Virus is?
→ How it works?
→ Introduced some antivirus software (AVG, CLAM) as well as spyware/ malware. The checklist is produced and posted it on the wiki.
CMS Case Study
As a final part of the session, Mr. Sean Ang introduced the CMS Software (Content Management System) with practical exercises. The session of Day 2 is ended at 12:00 AM.
Hung & Ye Yint
Track 1 Report on Day 1 (25 Feb 2008)
Orientation The participants were asked to introduced themselves, by linking their names with an animal's name. An example includes Michael = Monkey, Aye= Ant and so on.
Then they were asked to remember the names of their friends, including nick names.
Exercise: The Inf=ormation Cycle 24 participants were divided into four groups manned by one experienced person or trainer for each group. The groups were asked to formulate informaiton management cycle. Group 1 discussed about the development of learning center. Group 2 discussed about the community radio for HIV awareness raising. Group 3 discussed the establishment of a webportal for gender issues in South East Asian countries. Group 4 touched on the general view of information processing.
Afternoon Session
In the afternoon session, the team leader of each group were asked to present and share the outcome of the morning discussions. Group 1 mentioned the a comprehensive approach such as IEC (Information, Education and Communications). In Group 2, the need for survey were mentioned as a prerequisite before a center is set up. Group 3 touched on the need to develop a content plan and provided examples of the categories and sub-categories of the project on Gender Quality. Besides that they also present an example of resource planning to ensure the project will be successful. Group 4 discussed the principles of information management centered around the concept of change. Upon the completion of the session, there were an open discussion on the differences between data, information and knowledge from database perspective and an analogy of the differences.
The last session (Wordpress Session) is a hands on session whereby the participants were taught how to add users, and edit content and how to do tagging.
Reported by Sean and Aye