EAC STAKEHOLDERS TRAINING WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION REPOSITORY AND WEB PORTAL

In line with the EAC Treaty and Development Strategy, the EAC Information Resource Centre (IRC) has embarked on digitizing the EAC integration information and knowledge, which constitute the EAC Institution Memory and Heritage. In support of this initiative the Council of Ministers approved the establishment of a Regional Technical Working Group for Information Resource Centres (EAC/SCMEAP22/Decision15). With support from GIZ, the
IRC embarked on establishing a ‘One Stop Shop’ – a resource discovery platform that will provide a single access point to all the EAC information and knowledge, which is available in various data silos of EAC Organs and Institutions.

The IRC team together with the Consultants from GIZ has worked tirelessly for the last six
months to finally have the following products in place:-

a) A Web Portal (elibrary.eac.int) and Information Repository (repository.eac.int);
b) Guidelines and Manuals; and
c) An Information Repository Policy