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WOUGNET has explored the use of SMS in information sharing and carrying out SMS campaigns around different themes. The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, an international SMS campaign from 25/Nov – 10Dec 2007, with over 170 participants drawn from 13 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, was used as a strategy to call for the elimination of all forms of violence against women. A Women’s Day campaign was carried out from 25/Feb – 14/Mar 2008 lead by EASSI, a WOUGNET member organisation, with over 240 participants drawn from 20 countries in Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. The aim of the campaign was to raise awareness of the plight of the girl-child in Kenya during the post-election violence in the country.
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The half day meeting was well attended. Mr. Kenneth Mugambe, Commissioner Budgets at the MFED was main Speaker, while MP Hon. Geoffery Ekanya was discussant. Commissioner Mugambe’s presentation provoked a multitude of questions from the participants including: Is government committed to serving the poor? This question arises out of the realization that whereas voices are heard at policy level, there is no impact at grassroots.
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Join Digistan and hundreds of individuals from across the globe in signing The Hague Declaration on Free and Open Standards. The Digital Standards Organization (Digistan) was founded by a group of open standards professionals in 2007 with the goal of promoting customer choice, vendor competition, and overall growth in the global digital economy through the understanding, development, and adoption of open digital standards.
The Digistan definition of a free and open standard is based on the 'European Interoperability Framework for pan-European eGovernment Services' (EIF v1 ) definition of "open standard" which defines free and open standard as follows:
* The standard is adopted and will be maintained by a not-for-profit organization, and its ongoing development occurs on the basis of an open decision-making procedure available to all interested parties.
* The standard has been published and the standard specification document is available freely. It must be permissible to all to copy, distribute, and use it freely.
* The patents possibly present on (parts of) the standard are made irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis.
* There are no constraints on the re-use of the standard.
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are widely recognised as key tools in addressing a variety of challenges including governance, poverty, health, market access, and access to information. However, is this more of a promise than it is reality? How can ICTs be used to increase wealth and to reduce poverty? What is not being done to use ICTs for poverty reduction and why is it not being done?
Around the world, ICT potential remains largely untapped particularly by groups experiencing constraints such as time, discrimination, lack of knowledge and access to productive resources. Women are identified as the most affected group of this category. For example, in Uganda, womens awareness and usage of ICTs is nearly three times less than that of men (2006 ResearchICT Africa!).
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In his closing remarks at the end of the Second Annual African e-Gov Forum 2008, Hon. Dr Ham Mukasa-Mulira, Minister of ICT, identified a gender-responsive ICT enabling environment as a key issue that will need to be addressed by the Ministry in its ICT policy priorities and in implementing eGovernment in Uganda.
The Second Annual African e-Gov Forum 2008 was held from 4 - 6 March 2008 at the Serena Hotel in Kampala. The event was organised by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) in collaboration with the Ministry of ICT and the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC). Following on from the successful inaugural event in Accra, Ghana, in March 2007, which was attended by 150 key ICT decision makers from both the Private and Public Sector, the CTO is building support for this vital conference.
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