The 1st day of Internet Training

The day started a littel late due to some technical problems in the room used. Our facilitator, Mr. Peik Johansson, started by explaining the history of Internet.

He later introduced us to the statistics of internet use in the world. It came to our surprise that Tanzania was not among the least users of the internet in the world. While Uganda and Kenya had more than a million users, Tanzania is estimated to have only 400,000 users. Asia is te leading continent in Internet use, the Europe followed by USA. However, USA leads in the internet penetration rates. This meaning many parts of the continent can access the internet easily.

After looking at those statistics, we also practised the online bookings. Here we tried to book a train from Turku to Helsink, assuming that a journalist can get an assigment of such a trip. Also we tried a flight booking from Dar es Salaam to Bujumbura.

Moreover our practice went to internet banking. here we visited websites of CRDB and NBC to in an attempt of practising online banking. The facilitator also helped use to follow the good way of keeping the record of our favorite websites and even to view the entire history of the websites visited.

The first day of the workshop was very interesting. we were all delighted with the new skills obtained from day one of the workshop.

My expectations on the rest of the days of our workshop is that we will get a chance to learn more on Internet use for communication, publication, research and journalism practices. The first day lasted at 1730hrs