Femi, The information on "How Can Local Governments Use ICT To Improve Their Efficiency?" is right on target. Silvie and the other contributors also have very good ideas. However the key driving force or the core content of the "IT Training Curriculum for Rural Community Local Government" will usually come from the community/audience itself. In other words, the outcome of your "ANALYSIS OF THEIR NEEDS AND SKILLS" and your knowledge of what will augment their deficiencies will eventually translate to a FUNCTIONAL ICT Training Curriculum for your audience. If the curriculum is not planned within the CONTEXT of the NEEDS of your audience you might get quite a few ICT Training Curricula that are quite interesting and very good, however they might not be practically applicable to the immediate needs of the audience. Hence whatever they learn during the training might not be applied efficiently.
Again Femi, there are several options but based on experience, I know that a collaborative curriculum works better for adult learners (especially the leaders/executives.) Extracting their needs from them and designing the curriculum within their context of application expands their locus of control. Hence they learn more and utilize their new learning faster and better. Feel free to give me a call to discuss it further. This is what I do for a living. I can also bring in an insider perspective into your project because I am from Nigeria. Have a nice day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mary (Molly) Uzoh Chief Learning Officer Learning Right Technologies P. O. Box 51616 San Jose, CA 95151 Phone: (408) 531-1967 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About Learning Right Technologies Headquartered in the heart of the Silicon Valley of California, Learning Right Technologies is a certified minority (African American) woman owned, small business that specializes in ICT consulting and educational services/tools. We provide interactive multimedia e-learning curriculum development, FOSS implementation, technical training, educational and television production, research services. Our team of consultants is made up of hi-tech professionals with academic specialization in computer science, mathematics, instructional technology, multimedia design including video streaming, database administration, as well as several years of management, and very strong hands-on technical experience in delivering learning services to schools, government agencies, small to medium size businesses, and high tech corporations. We have just completed the design and development of a prototype of a series of interactive multimedia e-learning software. Therefore, we are available to start as soon as you need us. At www.learningright.com, we respect your right2learn the right thing, the right way; and at the right place, the right time and the right price. ------------ This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by the dot-ORG USAID Cooperative Agreement, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org provides more information. To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd For past messages, see: http://www.dot-com-alliance.org/archive.html
