GIDICOM TRAINS CCMN BAMENDA CHAPTER JOURNALISTS, CSOs ON DIGITAL LITERACY.

The Global Initiative for Digital Inclusion and Communication (GIDICOM) has trained some Bamenda base journalists and CSO members under the umbrella of the Cameroon Community Media Network on Digital Literacy, particularly, information verification and Online advocacy.

The training saw the participants trained and encouraged to be Up standers and not By standers, encouraging them to put in their best to fight Fake News where ever they see it on the different META platforms (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and others). This participant and CCMN member, Pechuqui Laurata, says ”I have better understood information verification, getting to know that it is, not as tedious and time consuming as one may think. Also, advocacy is not necessarily to be done by very big organizations alone, as an individual, I can start a harsh-tag and have my friends and I change something in our community…”

To the coordinator of GIDICOM Miss Pedmia Shatu, she expects the participants in her words “to improve their news reports, change their narratives, be Up standers and not By standers and to also be good digital citizens”

In a working session, the participants designed mini advocacy projects and came up with a harsh-tag #ManageDorty, in pidgin which calls on members of the community to manage their waste, recycle their waste for a better and healthy community. Being the first quarterly meeting of CCMN, the members were briefed with reports from the different departments and also on upcoming projects in September.

By Chris Amabo in Bamenda

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