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CDS/ISIS Regional Training Workshop in Senegal
December 2003. UNESCO organized a two weeks workshop in Dakar for resource centres in Senegal, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Togo, in order to create or reinforce a network of competence on CDS/ISIS and ICTs in West Africa.

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CDS/ISIS Regional Training Workshop in Senegal

20-02-2004 ()
December 2003. UNESCO organized a two weeks workshop in Dakar for resource centres in Senegal, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Togo, in order to create or reinforce a network of competence on CDS/ISIS and ICTs in West Africa.
The training was funded and organized by the UNESCO Cluster Office in Dakar (Mr. Thierry Kpehor) and the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. It was conducted by Ms Nadia Raïs and Pierre Chabert (France).

From 2 to 12 December 2003, two parallel sessions were run:

Basic level
  • CDS/ISIS software and data base management techniques
  • Internet: information retrieval and web site creation
  • Data base publishing in the Web using GenIsisWeb

    Advanced level
  • CDS/ISIS software, advanced functions
  • Data base-publishing in the Web using GenIsisWeb
  • CDRom-publishing using GenIsisCD.

    Thirty-four people participated to the workshop, mainly belonging to local or international institutions or organizations active in Africa. Most of them attended the workshop in view of obtaining precise technical skills for achieving ongoing documentary projects:

    - ACI (Africa Consultants International), Sénégal
    - ANCS (Alliance Nationale Contre le Sida), Sénégal
    - ANS (Assemblée Nationale du Sénégal), Sénégal
    - ASBAD / ESP (Association Sénégalaise des Bibliothécaires Archivistes et Documentalistes /Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique -), Sénégal
    - UCAD (Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Sénégal
    - BACDI (Bureau d'Appui à la Coopération Canadienne), Sénégal
    - CAEL (Cellule d'Appui aux Elus Locaux), Sénégal
    - CC (Cour des Comptes), Sénégal
    - CCIAD (Chambre de Commerce d'Industrie et d'Agriculture de Dakar), Sénégal
    - CDD (Communication pour un Développement Durable), TOGO
    - CEFOREP (Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Santé de la Reproduction), Sénégal
    - CNRFP (Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme), BURKINA FASO
    - CRD/OMVS (Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Sénégal. Centre régional de Documentation), Sénégal
    - DAS (Direction des Archives du Sénégal), Sénégal
    - DC (Derka Cie), Sénégal
    - ENDA Tiers Monde (Environnement et Développement du Tiers Monde), Sénégal
    - ENDA/SANTE (Environnement Développement Action en Santé Communautaire), Sénégal
    - ENSA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Agriculture de Thiès), Sénégal
    - ENS-CUSE (Ecole Normale Supérieure - Chaire Unesco en Sciences de l'Education), Sénégal
    - FHI (Family Health International), Sénégal
    - IFAN CAD (Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop), Sénégal
    - IPS (Institut de Pédiatrie Sociale), Sénégal
    - IRAG (Institut de recherche agronomique de Guinée), Guinée
    - OMS (Organisation Mondiale de la Santé), Bénin
    - SUD-COM (Sud Communication), Sénégal
    - UCAD (Rectorat Université Cheikh Anta DIOP de Dakar), Sénégal
    - UFR SEG. UGB (Université Gaston Berger. UFR Sciencs Economiques Gestion), Sénégal

    The workshop was an opportunity to attempt creating a CDS/ISIS community in Africa. While such communities exist at regional level in Latin America, for example, this didn’t happen at that level in Africa, particularly in West Africa.

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  • This item can be found in the following topics:
          · Guinea
          · Togo
          · Benin: News Archive
          · Burkina Faso: News Archive
          · Senegal: News Archive 2004


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