Local Language Web Hosting (Web Designing) Workshop

Invitation!

Greetings to you!

We are happy to announce our workshop on local language web hosting (web designing) from 24^th to 26^th September 2007.

For details about the workshop, the dates, venue and registration fees, please go through the details given below, or log on to our site www.yuvaindia.org

To participate in the workshop and go back with your website prepared over here, please register latest by the 15^th of August 2007.

Looking forward to your active participation.

 

Thanking you

With warm regards
 
Shankharupa A. Damle

Programme Manager

YUVA Centre

Participants are requested to register at YUVA Centre with a payment of Rs. 8000/-* as registration fees, by the 12th of September. The fees include your lodging and boarding for full three days, computers (with internet facilities) that you would be using during the training course and most importantly, you would go back with a website of your own and further skills to upload information on your own site.

* The registration fees is negotiable on case to case basis with a request letter from the organisation, stating valid reason of negotiation; discretion regarding the amount negotiated, however depends completely on the organiser.

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Connecting to the World

Training on Local Language Web Hosting and Communication

It is said that today the world has been reduced to a global village. The click of a mouse connects us to people at the other end of the world, through the internet. Further, our own website helps preserve a detailed description of ourselves and our organisations, giving an opportunity to connect to the world through well-defined aspects that we categorically use to describe ourselves with. Today every organisation, big or small has/strives to have a website of its own that would speak of every detail that the organisation would like to share with the world. The visual representation added to the information gives a mental diagram of the organisation. Therefore in this hurry to get included in this global network, grassroots organisations often have to rely on technical experts to design their websites. Financial exploitation and complete dependency form part of this mad rush.

To help overcome this self-insufficiency and to be able to upload information in one’s local language, this training programme has been primarily targeted to grassroots and intermediary level civil society organisations to expose them on various nuances of web-site creation, web-tools, and Content Management System (CMS) – enabling them to build their dynamic websites. The programme is being organised by YUVA Centre and conducted by Ek-Duniya (One World).

One World in South Asia is the South Asian Centre of the One World network that aims to harness the democratic potential of the information and communication technologies to promote human rights and sustainable development.

Ek-Duniya facilitates grassroots communities, civil society organisations and other multi-stakeholder partners to host local language content and communicate effectively on the web. Ek-Duniya implementation entails design of template based dynamic websites, and uploading English & Indic language content – with continuous hand-holding support from One World South Asia. 

YUVA Centre at Kharghar was initiated in August 2001 as the training and development wing of YUVA. The objective was to create space for collective learning for people/groups working towards the common cause of human and institutional development. To this effect YUVA Centre has, in the past 5 years attempted to enable this democratisation of society through learning and training processes that go beyond mere transfer of knowledge and skills, to engaging with the transformation processes in civil society. The present workshop on local language web hosting is organised from 24^th to 26^th September 2007 at YUVA Centre, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai.

The core objective of the proposed workshop would be to enhance our skill of strategic communications for strengthening the work being done at the grassroots in development, poverty reduction and social justice; and to build an online community of NGOs in South Asia using the power of the Internet in order to reinforce their grassroots activities.

At the end of this 4-day programme, the participants are expected to build and go back with their web-site within Ek-Duniya initiative of One World South Asia.