Enhanced Capacity Building And Contribution to Manpower

Development Using ICT

What Is Capacity Building?“Everything Comes To Us That Belongs To Us If We Create The

Capacity To Receive It.”Rabindranath Tagore.

It is often said that you can not give what you don’t have but it is actually that you can not give what you don’t have the capacity to have. Capacity building is the most important aspect of growth for an organization, an institution and even a nation because the higher your capacity the more productive you will be.

Cont.Capacity building can be defined as the planned development of (or increase in) knowledge, output rate, management, skills, and other capabilities of an organization or an individual through acquisition, incentives, technology, and/or training. Capacity building has proven itself to be the bedrock of success in an organization or the life of an individual and this is why it is highly encouraged. For capacity building to be made possible there are certain-

Requirements For Capacity Building

•Interest.•Enthusiasm.•Training.•Resources.

INTEREST“A man will fight more for his interest

than for his rights”.Napoleon Bonaparte

Before capacity can be built and manpower developed, there must first and foremost be an interest because where there is no interest, there can be no will.

Cont.Interest can be defined as a great attention and concern from someone or something that is intellectual curiosity. When people develop an interest in something, it is no longer difficult to create a drive in them to build capacity. Interest is not difficult to develop any longer because there is an innate desire in Man to always want to become better than he is currently. But it is now about finding the right way to stir up this already existing desire to develop interest. There are many ways of developing interest and this are as follows;

Cont.• Interaction With Professionals.• Motivational Speaking.• Rhetorical Questions.• Provision Of Resources.To bring together all the above to stir interest, the easiest solution to these is ICT. Information communication technology can be used to bring together all the above methods of stirring interest. You no longer need to spend so much money to bring

Cont.a professional down to interact with those whom you want to build capacity because the world is now a global village through the advent of some information communication technologies like;• Social Networks.• E-learning portals.• Video conferencing solutions.• Telepresence solutions.• Webinars.Etc.We are all getting connected one way or the other and so interaction is now made more possible at minimal cost and

Cont.Likewise it is for all the other means of stirring interest that we have mentioned above especially provision of resources because everyone feels embarrassed to not be able to make use of resources made available to him or her and when it is required of them to know how to use these resources, they have no choice than to try to build capacity and ICT makes these possible through the use of;• Search engines.• Wikis.• Forums. and much more.

EnthusiasmNow after interest has been stirred, because interest is never created but it only lies dormant and therefore needs to be stirred it does not stop there you need enthusiasm because interest without enthusiasm is like a destination without a route and as such it can never be reached. Therefore there is need for enthusiasm.

Cont.Enthusiasm can be defined as an intensity of feeling, excited interest or eagerness. The more enthusiastic a person is about a thing, the more likely the person is to succeed in that thing. Enthusiasm can be developed in different ways and they are as follows;• Incentives.• Provision Of Reading Materials.• Exhortation.• Challenges.

Cont.To bring together all the above to help develop enthusiasm, ICT has been able to help to cover all these grounds. Incentives, ICT incentives have proven to actually create enthusiasm especially in our youths whom are the future of tomorrow, when you make capacity building a yardstick for offering certain incentives especially ICT based incentives, you create enthusiasm. Some ICT based incentives that could develop enthusiasm;

Cont.• Tablet devices.• Cloud computing.• Smartphones.• Enterprise level software.• Software and hardware. Etc.Provision of reading materials is also another way of developing enthusiasm and ICT has made this possible also. Research has shown that all over the world that about 80% of

Cont.Individuals who use the internet, use it to search out information and this makes us understand that the days of people going to the library to search out information which is all capacity building entails are numbered as the world is slowly becoming a global village. ICT makes access to reading materials available through different solutions like;• E-libraries.• Search engines.• Book sales sites.

Cont.• Wikis.• Blogs.• Repositories.There by aiding and growing capacity building. To stir interest you need motivation but to develop enthusiasm people need exhortation that is encouragement. Exhortation can take different forms some in form of quotes, encouragement books, life stories and all of these help in developing enthusiasm.

Cont.There is only so much you can say to develop people’s enthusiasm especially when you lack adequate information and these informations are made available to you at your finger tips through ICT by various solutions some of which are as follows;• Mentor social networks.• Video search engines.• Image search engines.• Blogs.And many more.

Cont.Challenges also are also a means of building capacity. Everybody wants to be able to solve their problems by themselves without having to ask anybody for help and even though it isn’t possible to solve all your problems by yourself, you can build your capacity to the point where you can solve most of your problems by yourself.

“Nobody can know everything but you can know many things”

Prince Will

Cont.ICT enables people build capacity through challenges because basically every challenge you face whether at work or in your personal life, someone else has faced that challenge and overcame it and because of ICT all the tools a person needs to share anything with the world is at your finger tips and the person has shared this solutions with other people through ICT and some of the tools ICT provides to help people build capacity through challenges are as follows;

Cont.• Blogs.• Social networks.• Live classes.• Webinars.

TrainingsThis is like the bedrock of capacity building because capacity building is all about skills acquisition and skills can only be acquired through trainings whether • Formal Trainings.• Informal Trainings.Training can be defined as the activity of imparting and acquiring skills. After the enthusiasm has been developed, it will become useless without acquiring knowledge and that acquisition of knowledge is

Cont.Known as training and training is a continuous process that never ends, it keeps on going on and on.

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those that can not read or

write but those that can not learn, relearn and unlearn.”

Alvin TofferTraining is made up of 3 components and they are as follows;

Cont.• Research.• Compilation.• Delivery.

Research: Finding out and gathering information.Compilation: Sifting and putting together of information.Delivery: Giving out information either by speaking or

doing.

Cont.ICT has been able to provide solutions for each of these components of training to help make the building of capacity easier than it formally was and some of these solutions are as follows;

Research• Mobile devices.• Search engines.• Blogs.• Wikis.• Book stores.• E-libraries.• Resource websites.Etc.

Compilation• Notepads.• Computers.• Office 365.• E-book publishing software.• Content Packaging software.Etc.

DeliveryDelivery has been made more easier and possible through the advent of ICT, gone are the days when you must compulsorily have to see a trainer face to face before you can tap from his well of knowledge as now through various ICT solutions that exist the barrier of distance and compulsory face to face contact has been broken. And some of these solutions are as follows;

Cont.• Distance Learning Solutions.• Webinars.• Video Conferencing.• Telepresence.• E- learning portals.• Live streaming.• Blogs.• Social Networks.Etc.

ResourcesThe last but not the list of the requirements for capacity building is provision of resources. It has become a fact that most of the time whatever skill you acquire and leave, leaves you but I will like to say that this is wrong but rather whatever you leave and you lack resources to re-cap with, leaves you and this is where resources come into play. After you have been trained, it is very important that there are resources to go back to as time goes on for basically two reasons;

Cont.• Future Reminders.• To impact the same knowledge on someone else.Resources are made up of basically 3 activities which are as follows;• Creation.• Storage.• Sharing.ICT has been able to make all the above activities more easier and seamless to carry out with a whole lot of solutions.

Creation• Office365• EBook creation software.• Book publishing software.Etc.

Storage• Flash drives.• External hard disks.• Cloud storage.• Memory cards.Etc.

Sharing.• Office365.• Social networks.• File sharing sites.• Resource sharing sites.• E – learning portals.Etc.

ICT Tools For Capacity Building And its contribution to Manpower Development.

Search Engines: This are websites and softwares used for finding information on the internet and since the .com boom in the 1960s many of them have come into the internet e.g www.google.com

Blogs: This are websites run by an individuals or organizations to enable them share their articles on the world wide web and they are the third most popular kind of websites on the internet and there have been millions of blogs on the internet coming up everyday since the advent of the .com boom in the 1960s. You can own a blog!!!!

Cont. Wikis: This is a kind of website with contributors all

over the world and it also allows you to edit content posted on it. It can simply be defined as the encyclopaedias of the internet. E.g www.wikipedia.com and you can own a wiki!!!!.

Social Networks: This is a kind of website or software that allows you to connect and communicate with other individuals all over the world to share files, pictures, videos also exchange information by either texts,video or audio. E.g www.facebook.com and you can own a social network.

Cont. Video Conferencing: This is a combination of both software

and hardware to enable you to communicate with another individual or Organization through video and audio such that they can see and hear you and you can also see and hear them. E.g www.skype.com

Live Streaming: This is a software that enables you to be part of an event maybe a seminar or workshop while it is going on in real time through the internet but you can not communicate in real time with the presenter but you can just watch it.

Cont.• E-learning Portals: This is a replication of your

traditional classroom on the internet to enable people whom are not present in the traditional class to be part of your class at the same time.

• E-library: This is an electronic storage of books using ICT solutions targeted for this purpose.

Cont. Webinars: This is an interactive seminar conducted

via the world wide web usually a live presentation, lecture or workshop that happens in realtime as users participate through chatting, video chatting, file sharing or asking questions with a microphone.

Forums: This is an internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion and other members can also share their thoughts and give replies through comments.

Cont. Resource Sites: This are websites that provide you

with access to resources like PowerPoint presentations, pdf files Etc. for capacity building on many things E.g www.slideshare.net

Book sales sites: This are websites that enable you to purchase books both in digital and print formats to help you build capacity E.g www.amazon.com

Cont. Cloud storage: This are websites or software that

enable you to save your files on a server elsewhere so you don’t loose them in the advent of loosing a device so you can easily retrieve it elsewhere. E.g www.dropbox.com

Repository: This are websites or softwares that enable you to store your files, data and information for easy sharing and collaboration among many people.

THANK YOU2nd Timothy 2:15

“STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF APPROVED, A WORKMAN THAT

NEEDED NOT BE ASHAMED RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORLD

OF TRUTH”