Kenya Workshops

Please find details below regarding recent workshops held in Kenya.

The Bandwidth Management and Optimisation Strategic Planning Workshop
Nairobi 29-30 April 2008
A two-day participatory planning and review workshop was run in conjunction with KENET (the Kenyan NREN) involving selected professionals working in the areas of bandwidth management at African universities, Research and Education Network (REN) development and invited experts. Fifteen people took part in the workshop from 9 countries - Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and the UK.  The event resulted in recommendations and selection of activities to carry forward the identified objectives of fostering progress in the area of bandwidth management.  These will be presented to various stakeholders and funders for implementation. Kenya Library and Information Services Consortium (KLISC) organised a number of training activities during 2007, including the following three ICT training workshops:

Policy development to support bandwidth management and optimisation, University of Nairobi, 17-19 July 2007
INASP and TENET assisted with the provision of this KENET led policy development workshop to support effective Bandwidth Management and Optimisation (BMO) within the University environment in Kenya. Participants with responsibility for policy related work from the KENET membership focused on addressing key issues of bandwidth management and optimisation at an institutional level.

Monitoring and evaluating the use of e-resources (MEERU), Kenya, 31 July – 2 August, 2007
This was the second of the MEERU workshops which Kenya have hosted and enabled training of a further twenty-two participants from institutions throughout the country.  The facilitator, Mary Materu-Behitsa from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania  was assisted by the local Kenya PERI Country Coordinator, Jacinta Were.  Participants appreciated the skills acquired and felt they were now in a better position to effectively monitor and evaluate their individual institutional e-resources.

Participants at the Monitoring and evaluating the use of e-resources (MEERU) Workshop,
University of Nairobi, Kenya, 31 July – 2 August 2007

Web Design and Development, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 16-18 July, 2007
This workshop focused on the creation of web pages using a number of different techniques.  The sixteen participants were introduced to a range of web page authoring tools and their effective use by the facilitators Washington Gachira (United States International University) and Evans Njoroge (Kabarak University).

Participants at the Web Design and Development workshop,
University of Nairobi, Kenya, 16-18 July

Electronic journals and electronic resources library management (EJs), University of Nairobi, Kenya, 27-29 June, 2007
Jane Gikandi (Kenyatta University) and  Rose Njoroge (Catholic Uni. of Eastern Africa) facilitated this ICT training workshop on access and usage of e-resources.  Sixteen participants from 14 KLISC member institutions attended and the workshop content was considered very practical and useful