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Social reporting is not just about writing, but a learning and practice opportunity

Youth involvement in agriculture and rural development through ICTs, has recently been on a rise in ACP countries. Among the factors that have attributed to this development is the penetration and adoption of ICT in these regions. Across the agricultural sector, ICT tools and processes have facilitated various Agricultural Value Chain stages to yield sustainable growth. More so, the integration of ICT innovations has brought about a paradigm shift in Finance for Agriculture.
While this development remains of great importance to the ACP regions and the world over, the dissemination and exchange of information on best practices, emerging innovations, challenges and opportunities remains an important aspect of sustained development in the sector. The sharing of this stipulated information and knowledge through the use of Social Media has proven to be successful. With ambitious youth and ICT, in particular digital media enthusiastic generation, social media is a fast growing medium of knowledge sharing, a practice which has seen an increase in the engagement of youth in agriculture and rural development.
In the eyes of this development, I have seen my career re-alignment, and in its wings, my career growth. I am one of the on-site Social Reporters for the Fin4Ag Conference, which is taking place from 14 -18 July 2014, in Nairobi, Kenya.
Right from the economic heart of Zambia, the Copperbelt Province, I am a young ICT for Development (ICT4D) enthusiast and Tech-Social Entrepreneur working in the area of promoting increased and effective use of ICTs for agriculture, youth and rural development, in Zambia, and the Southern African region.
With an education background in Information Technology, I have been part of several social reporting teams for the past years, including the ICT4Ag Conference organised by CTA and its partners in November 2013. As an on-site reporter, my experience at the ICT4Ag Conference was a successful and life-changing one. I saw and experienced how ICTs and in particular  ... Read Full Article Here

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  1. Brenda Nglazi ZuluJuly 27, 2014 at 3:13 AM

    I have since 2000 covered many events as i have belonged to many international teams. I highly support this kind of reporting because it makes the conference generate a lot of content. the reporters also learn more about the subject.

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  2. Kalisha Wa ManguJuly 27, 2014 at 8:55 AM

    Thank you Brenda for the comment. It is now clear and evident that Social Reporting has proven to be useful to the content generation and dissemination process. It is recommended that various events adopts this practice.

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