HOW ICTS CAN SUPPORT COMBATING CRIMES
ICT stakeholders, including SwoPnet Mwanza Chapter have been urged to conduct more ICT awareness workshops to raise the awareness of law enforcers on how ICT can support combating crimes.
That call was made by the participants of a SwoPnet forum, which was held on 27 June 2008 at Vizano Hotel. The forum was attended by lawyers, magistrates, prisons officers and police officers.
Adam Ndokeji from SWOPnet explaining a point. Sitting on his right side is SWOPnet chair, Abubakar Karsan.
They said they had been highly impressed by the contents of the forum, which they further said, was their first time to attend.
Appreciating how ICT can support the war against crimes, they however noted that, lack of training on how to use various ICT tools and non availability of ICT software's and hardware's, could jeopardize utilization of ICT tool in combating crimes.
They claimed that most of their offices do not have ICT tools such as computers and internet. An official from the police said they were still using old typewriters.
Some of the forum participants following the presentations.
In his presentation, Abubakar Karsan, showed how ICT can combat crimes. ICTs can support and facilitate quick communication, provide reliable storage of information and quick retrival of information, for police and other legal uses, he said.
Earlier on the participants were introduced to SwoPnet Mwanza chapter's activities by Adam Ndokeji, while Joseph Msaki deliberated about online discussion and its advantages. However practical training on how to participate on an online discussion was not possible, as the SwoPnet discussion group could not be availed. Efforts to access it proved futile.
A cross section of the forum's participants following the presentation of SWOPnet.
The forum was attended by 25 participants.
