Mobile Monday, the global community of mobile industry professionals and innovators, has now launched its newest chapter in Uganda.

The Kampala Chapter was founded by representatives from Uganda’s telecom companies: Orange Uganda, MTN Uganda, I-telecom, Mara Telecoms, Universities, media and ICT firms.

At the inaugural meeting facilitated by Dr. Madanmohan Rao, the research projects director for Mobile Monday, the various stakeholders in the nation’s mobile and ICT sectors chose the name MoMoKLA for the Kampala city chapter.

MoMoKLA is scheduled to be officially launched on March 8, prior to the opening of the Digital Africa Summit 2010 that will be held in Kampala.

SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa is a book that offers practical examples of how activists in Africa are using mobile technology to organise and document their experiences and how the phones' capabilities have had a dynamic influence on activists’ aims and strategies.
The authors – activists, academics and technology specialists – look at inequalities in access to technology based on gender and rural and urban usage, and consider how mobile phones’ increasing integration with the internet helps activists internationalize their struggles.

SMS Uprising is now available at http://fahamubooks.org/book/?GCOI=90638100577370

Feminist Practice of Technology is a growing idea that gives perspectives on technology. It poses questions and defines issues relating to technology from feminist perspectives, taking into account various women's realities, women's relationships with technologies, women's participation in technology development and policy-making, power dynamics in technologies and feminist analysis of the social effects of technologies.

It is also an approach to training that defines the core values that comprise feminist technology training. It is based on the experiences of women and feminists in and with technology training.

WOUGNET is looking to fill the position of Fundraising Manager. (Extended application deadline: 25 February 2010)

The WOUGNET Fundraising Manager is a dynamic, self-motivated, innovative, organised and outgoing person to match a demanding and challenging role that requires excellent relationship management and communication skills, strong planning and organisational skills, the ability to self start as well as a tenacious attitude. The Fundraising Manager is passionate about improving the lives of women in Uganda.