Staff members are techno-resistant

We considered setting up an EMIS in the Ministry of Education and all schools throught out the country and we realized that many members of staff needed to be trained in computer literacy before they would be able to use the new system. To gain the staff's attention, we had the software vendor come over and demonstrated to the staff members how the EMIS works and everyone was given the opportunity to try the new system. Following the presentation, we had extensive discussions on the benefits of the EMIS and everyone agreed that the new system was very relevant to the new thrust in education.

We organized training for the varioius members and noticed that several leading officers were not attending the sessions. We investigated further and discovered that a number of them were uncomfortable sitting in classroom with the younger staff who "knew" more than them. We needed them to come on board so we had one-to-one training in their own offices, for those officers. It took us longer to start using the EMIS but when we did start, everyone was on board.