| dc.description.abstract | 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)
is being held at,
Nairobi Safari Club, University Way, Nairobi
between
18th – 25th March 2013
Please click on the here for directions
Project grantees hail from various countries of Africa:
Cameroon 2 participants
Ethiopia 3 participants
Kenya 5 participants
Mozambique 1 participants
South Africa 2 participants
Uganda 1 participants
The project team organizing the workshop consist of
Professor Timothy Waema
Dr Laban MacOpiyo
Mrs Anuradha Khoda
The workshop was officially launched on Monday by the acting Vice chancellor University of Nairobi, Prof. Peter Mbithi. Click here to download the Speech
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
Understand concepts of Climate variability and change modelling at various time and space scales
Understand the approaches to regional and local climate studies based on existing climate analysis methods
Plan either an experiment or a survey efficiently
Understand the various biometrical components pertaining to data collection, design and analysis of experiments/surveys
Apply correctly various statistical techniques at all stages of research and effectively report the results
For Effective Scientific Communication and Publishing Course
Undertake Scientific writing and publishing
Perform Graphical methods for data analysis
Oral Communication and presentation
Proposal writing and grant management
Web 2.0 Applications
Similar workshops will take place in Asia and Latin America regions.
Asia workshop will be held from the 28th March to 4th April in Hanoi, Vietnam at the Asian Management and Development Institute (AMDI). | en_US |
