PUNE: NASSCOM Foundation, the social development arm of NASSCOM, India’s premier Information Technology (IT) industry body, in partnership with Microsoft, will be conducting the ‘ConnectIT workshop’ for Government officials in Pune on 26th &27th August 2010.

The workshop will be held at the MITCON Institute Of Management, Balewadi in Pune with support of NASSCOM, Microsoft, Collectorate – Pune and District office – Pune. The entry to the workshop is FREE!

Chandrakant Dalvi, Pune District Collector and Dilip Band, Divisional Commissioner, Pune will be the Chief Guests at the workshop.

The two day training programme will include hands-on training and problem solving on advanced MS office (word, excel, powerpoint), communications (outlook), online tools (internet usages useful for government work), new technologies, (mobile phones for development) and an exposure to the flagship eGovernance projects.

Considered to be an important catalyst in bringing change, IT use can support the Govt. Officers by increasing their productivity; improve communication and collaboration; organize critical information and facilitate skills development training of others.ConnectIT is a series of capacity building workshops for Government Officials and NGOs to utilize information technology for everyday development work.

Under the ConnectIT program, NASSCOM Foundation has previously conducted successful workshops for non-profits and government officialsn Pune, Nagpur, Sangli and Mumbai in Maharasthra. Similar workshops have also been conducted in Orissa and Rajasthan. Earlier capacity building workshops for Government officials in Sangli and Gadchiroli were attended by over 140 government officialss from over 40 department and were very well received.