DIRECTORATE OF ORIENTATION ORGANISES WORKSHOP FOR INFORMATION OFFICERS

Information Officers deployed to Ministries, Departments and Agencies in Delta state have been called upon to brace up to the new trend of the new media, especially social media so as to ensure effective and proper interpretation and dissemination of the policy thrust of the present administration.

The Secretary to the Delta state Government, Hon. Festus Ovie Agas, gave this charge while declaring open a 3day workshop/Training for Public Relations Officers and Public Enlightenment Officers in the various Ministries and the 25 local Government Councils across the state.

While declaring the workshop on Website Management entitled: 'Enhancing Information Management through information and Communication Technology for State Ministries, Parastatals and Local Government Councils', open, the SSG noted that the state website has been upgraded, adding that it was a veritable window through which the world could assess the state and urged Officers to take the training seriously so as to be able to interpret the Agenda of the present administration to the world through the effective use of the  media via  ICT. 

Hon Agas noted that government organized the workshop in order to equip the Officers with the requisite skill to properly use the ICT in bringing the desired synergy between the government and the governed through effective communication.

Earlier in his speech, the Executive Assistant , Directorate of Orientation, Barr. Eugene Uzum, noted that the advent of the Social media is such that has come to stay and stressed the need for the state Information Managers to be abreast with the proper use of it enable them do their job effectively and make the government, the governed and by extension, the world be on the same page.