Bishop Franzelli (center) poses for a group
photo with the participants
The Chairman of Social Communications Commission at the Uganda Episcopal Conference (UEC), Rt. Rev. Joseph Franzelli, Bishop of Lira Diocese, has appealed to Catholic Communicators in Uganda to acquire more knowledge and skills in Information Communication Technology (ICT) to help improve their work of evangelization in their dioceses.
He said the use of ICT in evangelization will provide them with an effective way to reach to large numbers of people who face various challenges in life thus provide inspiration and encouragement.
Bishop Franzelli said this during the opening ceremony of a two-day Website Designing training workshop that was held in Moroto Diocese from April 20-21, for the Diocesan Communication Coordinators and journalists who work with Catholic media institutions in Uganda.
“In today’s world the use of ICT is relevant to many activities and programs of the Church especially in evangelization,” Bishop Franzelli said. “We should therefore make good use of this training by acquiring all the relevant skills in website designing so that we can improve our online presence for our dioceses and serve as vehicles for evangelization and catechesis.”
The two-day practical workshop, which was part of the Annual Social Communications week, was organized by the Social Communications Department at UEC. It was designed to equip the communicators with the necessary skills and knowledge to leverage ICT for evangelization.
Some of the topics discussed included, introduction to web designing and online publishing, creating a website using content management systems, writing for online and publishing articles on website, recording, editing and publishing audio to the web, capturing pictures, editing and publishing to the web as well as effective publishing and engagement on social media.
The Executive Secretary of Social communications Department at UEC, Rev. Fr. Philip Odii, said that technologies are not only changing our way of communicating, but are a platform to living through a period of vast transformation.
“The activities in our diocese in this age of globalization are huge thus we can perform an important service to our listeners by the selection and transmission of useful data in this medium,” he said.
Meanwhile, some of the participants expressed their gratitude that the training programme enhanced their skills on developing a website for effective reporting and urged the organizers to widen the scope of the program for more people to benefit in future.
The training attracted over 40 communicators from 18 dioceses across the nation.
By Jacinta W. Odongo, Media Officer, Uganda Episcopal Conference
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