By Ifeizu Joe
The Anambra State government has held a one day training workshop for selected journalists practicing in the state.
The training was conducted through Anambra State ICT Agency in conjunction with the State Ministry of Information, PA-CENT Technologies and Bonitas Technologies.
The MD/CEO the agency, Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata, during an opening speech explained that the training became important to scale up the knowledge base of the journalists to be better equipped in the area of technology and be able to deploy the knowledge to improve their work.
Agbata, who was represented by his Technical Assistant, Mr. Sunday Folayan, reminded the journalists that the difference between successful and unsuccessful practitioners is the quality of knowledge.
“I encourage journalists to maximize the use of trainings like this to increase their knowledge of ICT so as to improve their works.
“The MD/CEO, Anambra ICT Agency, believes so much in the vision of Mr. Governor that everything in the state must have a touch of technology and technology must be seen in everything.
“The ICT agency will be available to follow up the trainees, and be sure that the knowledge garnered is well internalized and deployed to make their works better.”
The training featured sessions on use of modern media and productivity tools, use of Artificial Intelligence for content creation and personal digital assistance.
The training which is the first batch in the series, also featured practical sessions where media professionals worked with some modern media tools, as well as provided opportunity for them to ask questions and get responses on grey areas of such digital tools.
