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In celebration of International Women's Day, 8 March 2010, the Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX) is launching its new website - http://ftx.apcwomen.org/. The FTX is both a training initiative for women's rights advocates and a community of feminist and technology activists. The FTX was developed by the Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) in response to calls from feminist and women's rights movements for greater understanding of emerging technologies, their potential and impact on the rights and lives of women.
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Women's Week Exhibition is being held at Uganda Museum on Kitante Road from 1st March to 7th March 2010. The event is hosted by the National Association of Women Organisations in Uganda (NAWOU). Come and see what women think and do to realize equality and equal opportunities, and through school children drawings, learn what the youth think.
Are you an exhibitor with something to sell? You are welcome at a small fee. The Exhibition will be opened by the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development on Tuesday 2nd March at 2:00pm. Do not miss the occasion to be seen and heard. There is an opportunity for you to put your views down on what you think the level of empowerment for women is in Uganda. National Women's Day Celebrations on 8th March will be held in Kizinda, Ishaka, Bushenyi District.
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Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity is a study on the mobile phone gender gap in low and middle-income countries. The study report was launched at the Mobile World Congress by Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM Association (GSMA), Cherie Blair, Founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and Brooke Partridge, CEO of Vital Wave Consulting. The Mobile World Congress was held in Barcelona, Spain, from 15 - 18 February 2010. Mobile phone ownership in low and middle-income countries has skyrocketed in the past several years. But a woman is still 21% less likely to own a mobile phone than a man. Closing this gender gap would bring the benefits of mobile phones to an additional 300 million women. By extending the benefits of mobile phone ownership to more women, a host of social and economic goals can be advanced. WOUGNET's work with rural women farmers in Apac District, Northern Uganda, is among the cases highlighted in the report. With support from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP EU (CTA) and Hivos, WOUGNET has used mobile phones as one of the ICT tools to enhance access to agricultural information by rural women farmers.
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Experts in mobile communications have urged Uganda’s operators to reduce the cost of mobile broadband to increase the penetration of mobile phone-based services among people. Cheap mobile broadband is also a major incentive for the growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firms. The demand for low cost broadband connectivity was made by speakers at the inaugural meeting of Mobile Monday Kampala (MoMoKLA), held at the Orange Uganda head office in Kampala on Monday (February 15). The meeting convened at least 85 participants from the mobile communication industry, academia, and users of mobile devices to discuss; The Future of Mobile Broadband in Uganda, which was the adopted theme of the meeting.
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The Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment (GRACE) is a project that was initiated in 2005 with an aim to provide context specific data on how women in Africa use information communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives, barriers that prevent them from accessing and utilisation of ICTS and how they surmount these barriers. With support from the International Development Research Center (IDRC), GRACE evolved into an African network of Gender and ICT researchers involving 14 research teams in 12 different African countries including Uganda.
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