This is a critical year for Africa as we head towards the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to be held from 20-22 September 2010 in New York. With only five years before the MDGs are to be achieved, it is important that all African stakeholders, including citizens, review the progress made in recent years and develop a set of priorities for engagement and advocacy in Africa, and towards building a redefined relationship between Africa and the international community.

Against this background, African Monitor and various partners, including ONE and the Southern Africa Trust, are facilitating face-to-face consultations around the continent to develop a citizen-driven agenda for Africa in the second decade of the 21st century.

On behalf of Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET), we take this opportunity to invite you to participate in WOUGNET’s 10^th Anniversary since its inception in 2000 as a non profit organisation with the mission of promoting and supporting the use of ICT by women and women organisations in Uganda, so that they can take advantage of the opportunities presented by ICTs in order to effectively address local and national problems for sustainable national development.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in partnership with Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) organized a workshop for persons with disability called “ICT Accessibility”. The workshop which took place on 6th May 2010 at the Commonwealth Hotel Speke,  Munyonyo in Kampala, Uganda was intended to mainly discuss the challenges faced by PWDs globally in accessing ICTs and share knowledge of how a number of ICTs used for electronic accesssibility (e-accessibility) have and can still bridge the gap between the disabled persons and the non-disabled ones.

Talking about social media and ICT. Today I am helping my friend Cissy to create a Facebook page for her organization - Ntulume Village Women’s Development Association (NVIWODA). In June 1987 a group of women residing in Ntulume Village founded, Ntulume Village Women Development Association. NVIWODA operates in ten districts of Uganda, the organization equips women with skills, networks and shares knowledge and information with twenty seven women community based groups.

Apparently NVIWODA does not have an independent website, however they are hosted on a subdomain www.nviwoda.internnection.com – powered by Kabissa and also profiled on the Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) website – http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/nviwoda.html. NVIWODA is one of the 99 or so women organizations profiled on the WOUGNET website.