The role of ICTs in election reporting

A consultant has said ICTs are playing a key role in enhancing information dissemination to the public.
Kwami Ahiabenu said that ICTs are changing the face of news coverage and is keeping up with technology which journalists needed to efficiently tap and aptly disseminate to the audiences.
Ahiabenu said in this era, ICTs should be used to keep up with the use of delivery platforms in order to fill up the daily news updates that audiences need to be made aware of.
He further said web technologies were affordable and had played a cardinal role in changing the reporting of elections.
‘’Widespread availability of affordable web technologies has inspired a lot of web-driven journalistic projects surrounding elections,’’said Ahiabenu.
He was speaking during a workshop whose theme was training on elections coverage using ICTs in Windhoek today.
The workshop drew participants from different media institutions in Namibia.
He said that there is need for journalists to take advantage of ICTS in reporting elections and make citizens aware of different aspects concerning elections in Namibia.
Namibia will this year go to the polls and the elections are scheduled to take place on the November 27 with about 13political parties participating in the general elections.