The annual Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) is a platform for bloggers, podcasters, vodcasters, mobile journalists, citizen reporters, new media practitioners, online industry experts and civil society representatives, as citizens who try to empower themselves and their community using new media technologies. The DCI takes place at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa just before the annual Highway Africa Conference (HA) in September. The DCI was established after it was recognised that Highway Africa could do more to encourage new media take-up by non-journalists, thereby ensuring that citizens have a (digital) voice too.

Culture does not grow old hence the need to encourage young women to take up leadership. The question is, as ‘older’ women retire who will take up leadership?

NAWOU in collaboration with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation carried out a research in two districts; Kiboga and Luweero to study young women’s participation in governance issues. This research was carried out because apparently there is a small number of young women aged 18 – 35 years participating in political governance. The numbers of those participating are not proportional to their population.

On the 21st August 2009, the first Beverley Nambozo Annual Poetry Award ceremony was held and graced with the presence of the Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda, as the Chief Guest. On a beautiful night out under the open skies, the true stars of the evening were the poetry gems revealed to the public.