Greenstone Training Workshops in Ethiopia

The southern African pilot project has facilitated a radiation of expertise in Greenstone to other areas of Africa. In Ethiopia, a 5-day Introductory Greenstone Training Workshop and a 3-day Advanced Greenstone Training workshop were organised in Addis Ababa from April 29 to
May 7 by UNESCO in cooperation with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the
Consortium of Ethiopian Academic and Research Libraries (CEARL) and the African Union (AU). 25 trainees participated in the introductory workshop and 12 in the advanced workshop.

The lead  instructor was Professor M. G. Sreekumar, coordinator of the South Asia Greenstone support effort (http://greeenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in). This training event aimed to support digital library capacity building of information managers, librarians and archivists, working in public and private universities in Ethiopia, as part of a larger initiative that seeks to strengthen the CEARL network and to facilitate the exchange and use of information resources. The workshop will also serve to launch an Amharic Greenstone localization project.