Indigenous websites on the rise after SDNP Lahore's workshop

June 14, 2001

SDNP Lahore conducted a Web Authoring workshop from 11-13 June 2001, in collaboration with the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM). Seventeen participants from the following organizations representing civil society, media and government departments attended the event, which was the last in this series:

1. Lahore Press Club
2. Institute of Physically Handicapped Children
3. Health Department Government of the Punjab
4. Movement for sustainable social autonomy & gender equity
5. Centre For Health & Population Studies (CHPS)
6. UNDP-PLUS Gujranwala
7. Alternative Media Network
8. War Against Rape (WAR)
9. Pakistan Girl Guides Association
10. Sudhaar and Sanjan Nagar Public Education Trust, Lahore.

This was a fairly interactive 3-day session enriched with hands-on training, which resulted in sixteen websites developed by the participants themselves. One noteworthy aspect of this workshop was that some of them were fairly experienced in the field of computer sciences but did not have an in-depth exposure to the Web itself. The participants termed the workshop a success and agreed to the vision of empowerment through ICTs.

In the end, Mr. Nadeem Malik (CE, I-Vision software house) gave away the certificates to the participants. He was impressed by SDNP's vision of transferring computer-related knowledge for indigenous purposes. He also admired the attitude that the workshop was able to generate when he was shown the new websites. SDNP Lahore's City Coordinator, Mr. Aman Azhar, thanked everyone for their proactive involvement in the workshop.