There are 10 lessons in this tutorial

Lesson 1 — Local Web Content:
In this lesson definitions are offered. For example what is local web content? What yardsticks you use to evaluate the content?

Lesson 2 — Basic Concepts on Information:
This is an introduction to information science principles. What is information? What is the Information Chain - the link between information and knowledge? What is the value of information? Why is Information Management important?

Lesson 3 — Information for Development:
This lesson places the role of information in development. It sets out how information can impact on development.

Lesson 4 — Information Gaps - A Digital Divide:
The role of the Internet to bridge information gaps in developing settings is the highlight of the lesson. What is the digital divide? How can new technologies be used to bridge information gaps? What ICTs projects have been implemented to bridge information gaps? What strategies are in place to increase the quality and quantity of locally generated web content?

Lesson 5 — PAPWEC Framework:
This chapter introduces the key concepts and practical guidelines that make up the PAPWEC design methodology. The five phases of PAPWEC are:

Phase 1: Needs Analysis — examine existing sources of information, identify the information needs/gaps of the users, study the socio-economic circumstances of the target audience, their culture and environment and through this determine how they are likely to use that information, determine the development goals to be met.

Phase 2: Content Architecture — determine the source of the content, determine the nature of content, establish how the web resource/information is going to meet the development goals i.e. establish goal congruence - the relationship between information and development and consider any constraints the eventual user is likely to face when accessing the web resource.

Phase 3: Authoring — design the interface of the web site e.g. navigation structure, background and knit all the different media elements using appropriate web editing packages and web programming languages.

Phase 4: Implementation and Impact Assessments — this stage involves publishing your web resource on the Internet, carrying out impact assessments, analyse web log results, revising and up-dating the content.

Lesson 6 — Translating PAPWEC:
This lesson shows how PAPWEC principles and practical guidelines can be used in a web building project.

Lesson 7 — Internet Resources:
The lessons gives you further insights into some other web building skills that one needs to acquire to knit the content together. These resources are available on the Internet.

Lesson 8 — The Web Team:
The lesson provides some practical tips on how to build an interdisciplinary web building team. It is important to have a range of skills in a web building team to build web sites that can deliver.

Lesson 9 — Financing the Project:
Tips are offered on how to finance a web building project.

Lesson 10 — Project Management:
This lesson shows you some underlying project management skills that will come in handy even for a small web building project.

Resources — Worksheets/Bibliography/Refrences:
Worksheets to story-board your content creation activities are added to this wealth of concepts and practical tips that will make the content you disseminate result in Action and Benefit to the target audience.

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