THE EXPEREINCE OF INTERNET USE WORKSHOP ORGANISED BY MISA TANZANIA FOR TANZANIAN JOURNALISTS

THE EXPEREINCE OF INTERNET USE WORKSHOP ORGANISED BY MISA TANZANIA FOR TANZANIAN JOURNALISTS


By GODFREY OBONYO of DAILY NEWS.

Journalism has been a developing profession like other professions that have been reparably impacted with the ever-growing Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs), currently, globalization has changed even culture and demand among the societies from all parts of world,

Just like Tanzanian political funs would want to know what is happening daily in the American democratic Barrack Obama’s Campaign rallies, American political supporters would be eager to know about Zimbabwe political crisis and its development or about political impasse in Zanzibar.

media is the only channel, through which information can reach people in all these angles of the globe, is through media.

This creates a great demand for the world to have media practitioners who are adequately skilled with ICT knowledge and experience, regarding that ICT is the basic engine for connecting societies across the world.
Basing on this, journalist should be well experienced in using internet and its applications to enable them get information from various parts of the world not only easily but also as quick as possible.
This is the basic reason why I was very much impressed to attend this workshop, which is for Tanzanian Journalists organized by MISA, as a young journalists practicing in this third world count ry.
For the first day I was able to study about study about different search engines that would definitely ease my job by providing me with millions of free information through internet and give me a range of knowledge about what is going round the world.
I also learnt about many web sites and web pages through which I can as well, be packed with essential formations that are useful raw materials to me as a journalist and with broad experience on o how to exchange the same information with both local and foreign colleagues plus the audience.
In the first day of the workshop I also learnt on how internet can be used for shopping, booking, learning, office management and many other ways in which the currently growing technology has changed the society and communication systems globally.
Through internet, I came to learn that media streaming has been possible and it is possible, e.g. through podcasting a person in far location where a local radio broadband could not reach can as well listen to the radio, websites like www.seet .tv would make it easy for me as a Tanzanian journalist to view a North American TV through internet as I listen to Brazilian Radio through the same.
I really propose to the local media here that good internet connections were necessary now following the growing demand to practice sufficient journalism that would be professionally commended.
I would like to learn more about the use of internet and computer in general basing on grounds that since the world is scientifically and even culturally converging day after day.