Announcement for research training workshop on Climate Change & Scientific Data Management and Scientific Communication and Publishing courses for Innovative Application of ICTs in Addressing Water-related Impacts of Climate Change (ICTWCC)

to be held at,

Nairobi Safari Club, University Way, Nairobi

on

18^th – 25^th March 2013

Please click here for directions

Project grantees from various countries of Africa will be attending the eight day long workshop. 

The countries represented are:

Cameroon   2 participants

Ethiopia       3 participants

Kenya           5 participants

Mozambique       1 participant

South Africa         2 participants

Uganda                 1 participants

The project team organizing the workshop consist of

• Professor Timothy Waema
• Dr Laban MacOpiyo
• Ms Anuradha Khoda

The overall aim of the training workshop is to enhance research and publishing capacity of grantees under the ICTWCC programme.

The courses are expected to enable participants competently achieve the following specific objectives:

For Climate Change and Scientific Data Management Course

1. Understand concepts of Climate variability and change modelling at various time and space scales
2. Understand the approaches to regional and local climate studies based on existing climate analysis methods
3. Plan either an experiment or a survey efficiently
4. Understand the various biometrical components pertaining to data collection, design and analysis of experiments/surveys
5. Apply correctly various statistical techniques at all stages of research and effectively report the results

For Effective Scientific Communication and Publishing Course

1. Undertake Scientific writing and publishing
2. Perform Graphical methods for data analysis
3. Oral Communication and presentation
4. Proposal writing and grant management
5. Web 2.0 Applications

Similar workshops will take place in Asia and Latin America regions.

Asia workshop will be held from the 28^th March to 4^th April in Hanoi, Vietnam at the Asian Management and Development Institute (AMDI).

Latin America workshop will take place on the 22^nd April to 2^nd May in Costa Rica at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE).

Visit http://www.ictwcc.or.ke for more details on the ICTWCC project