Peshawar University's future journalists conquer new frontiers at SDNP's workshop

June 16, 2001

SDNP Peshawar organized a one-day workshop on "Internet Access and Effective Searching Techniques" for the department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Peshawar on June 16, 2001. It was attended by 25 participants, including both the students as well as the faculty members.

Dr. Shah Jehan Sayed, Chairman department of Journalism & Mass Communication made the inaugural address. He lauded SDNP's pioneering role in the field of ICTs and knowledge networking initiatives, and reaffirmed his full-fledged support for it's activities in the campus as well as in district level workshops. Mr. Abid Hussain, Information Manager welcomed the participants on behalf of SDNP. Mr. Tahir Islam Nizami began the session by explaining the history, components and mechanics of the Internet; the World Wide Web (WWW); effective searching techniques and search engines. The session ended with queries from the interested participants.

The hands-on session was viewed as the most interesting part of the workshop in which the entire SDNP team, including Abid, Tahir, Waqar and Mukhtar A. Khan helped the participants in viewing websites and applying various searching techniques to gain the maximum amount of required information. In keeping with their field of specialization, they were also shown relevant online resources on journalism, mass media and mass communication. The participants thanked SDNP for conducting such an interesting workshop, which was tailor-made for them as Pakistan's future journalists in various media.