The Information Technology (Industry) Association of Nigeria (ITAN) and Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) recently concluded a 3 day training workshop for journalists that focused on the equipping them with skills for IT based journalism. This training programme is the second in a series organized by ITAN and ATCON, the first of which took place in Lagos from 1^st – 3^rd September, 2011. This part of the series was hosted in collaboration with the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and with the support of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) and the Institute of Software Practitioner of Nigeria (ISPON).

The training took off on the 7^th of December, 2011 and was attended by journalists and reporters from major media houses such as the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Aso FM/Radio Nigeria, MITV, Daily Trust Newspaper, Nigerian Tribune, among others.

Areas covered during the course of the course of the training include current global trends in ICT, cybersecurity, word processing, photo & graphic editing, blogging and web design. The underlying purpose of the training was to help increase the amount of locally developed content and information on the internet by providing journalists, who are on the frontline of information dissemination, with the right tools to work as effectively online as they do in their regular broadcast media. By using this strategy, ITAN is striving to realize the WSIS 2015 goal of a connected world with Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content under WSIS Action Line C8.

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