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Groups plan community info-network trainings

Written by anyajulia on 25 August 2008

IF plans do not miscarry, news reports filed at city paper or radio editorial desks would come from designated community information officers.

This as Bohol Association of United Development Information Officers (AUDIO) is tying up with the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) in a project that seeks to finally coordinate information management and streamline un-coordinated government information dissemination programs.

AUDIO and the PIA in Bohol are in the finalization process of training modules that is aimed at empowering barangay residents and officials by enhancing their developmental news writing, reporting and other communication skills, Yvette Matabalan of the local PIA revealed Thursday.

The move is also in line with a perception that the government developmental are rarely felt in the communities because of failure in the government communication process, an AUDIO officer added.

The jointly adopted program also aims to expand the network of town and government agency information officers to the communities while opening back the clogged feedback mechanism the government needs to assess its presence and impact on the community in general, the source said.

A roll out team pooled from the resources of both organizations would be assigned topics to discuss in series of workshops, says AUDIO president Francisco Obedencio.

The move to involve expand the information network to barangays in Bohol was prompted by the initial suggestion from local government operations officers who see promising potential information officers in communities.

Already presenting a project proposal for the joint effort is Candija, under Mayor Sergio amora, Obedencio revealed during a meeting at the Jjs Seafoods, Mandarin 2 room.

By empowering barangay residents, we make them more capable of serving frontline services and in the process, elevate government response faster.

Training modules include basic news writing for English and cebuano, basic broadcasting and radio reporting, emceeing, common barangay human resource enhancement trainings as well as foto-journalism.

According to Matabalan, training people is empowering them to ask the right questions from people, elicit information that may affect local legislative policies and systematically reinforce community life. (rachiu/PIA)

WIDENING INFO-NETS to the communities, info-officer members of the AUDIO and the PIA were presented the details of the community-based information network at a recent enhancement workshop held at Jjs Seafoods August 21.

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