eLearning Africa is a conference and exhibition organised by ICWE GmbH that focuses on information and communication technologies (ICTs) for development, education and training in Africa. Serving as a pan-African platform, eLearning Africa links a network of decision-makers from governments and administrations with universities, schools, governmental and private training providers, industry and important partners in development cooperation. Each year a different country hosts the event. This year’s conference took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 24^th to 28^th May 2011 with the theme “Youth, Skills & Employability” and attracted delegates from 90 countries around the world.

The Eastern African sub-Regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women in the East African Community region (EASSI) invites Women’s Rights Activists to be part of the coalition for an East African Community Protocol on Gender Equality movement which is spearheading the campaign as an East African Community Protocol on Gender Equality as a regional instrument.

Today is World Telecommunication & Information Society Day with the theme "Better life in rural communities with ICTs". Globally, the event is being celebrated in Geneva from 16th – 20 May 2011 with some of the several WSIS 2011 forum stakeholders and organizers being ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP and locally in Uganda, The 2011 World Telecommunications and Information Society day ICT Youth forum is being held at Ndejje University today 17th May 2011 and this initiative is led by Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) . 

Heart In Action Enterprises (HIAE) and WOUGNET have teamed up to develop and provide access to an online live & interactive end user social new media platform utilizing HIAE’s secured multimedia communication (multicast) application for social media online web events, conferences and e-learning.

The vision of the collaborative platform is to empower particularly women and the youth to engage in everything from online global leadership dialogues to dialogues within their local communities as well as providing innovative social media and multimedia application tools for learning & communication.