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Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity is a study on the mobile phone gender gap in low and middle-income countries. The study report was launched at the Mobile World Congress by Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM Association (GSMA), Cherie Blair, Founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and Brooke Partridge, CEO of Vital Wave Consulting. The Mobile World Congress was held in Barcelona, Spain, from 15 - 18 February 2010. Mobile phone ownership in low and middle-income countries has skyrocketed in the past several years. But a woman is still 21% less likely to own a mobile phone than a man. Closing this gender gap would bring the benefits of mobile phones to an additional 300 million women. By extending the benefits of mobile phone ownership to more women, a host of social and economic goals can be advanced. WOUGNET's work with rural women farmers in Apac District, Northern Uganda, is among the cases highlighted in the report. With support from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP EU (CTA) and Hivos, WOUGNET has used mobile phones as one of the ICT tools to enhance access to agricultural information by rural women farmers.
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Experts in mobile communications have urged Uganda’s operators to reduce the cost of mobile broadband to increase the penetration of mobile phone-based services among people. Cheap mobile broadband is also a major incentive for the growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firms. The demand for low cost broadband connectivity was made by speakers at the inaugural meeting of Mobile Monday Kampala (MoMoKLA), held at the Orange Uganda head office in Kampala on Monday (February 15). The meeting convened at least 85 participants from the mobile communication industry, academia, and users of mobile devices to discuss; The Future of Mobile Broadband in Uganda, which was the adopted theme of the meeting.
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The Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment (GRACE) is a project that was initiated in 2005 with an aim to provide context specific data on how women in Africa use information communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives, barriers that prevent them from accessing and utilisation of ICTS and how they surmount these barriers. With support from the International Development Research Center (IDRC), GRACE evolved into an African network of Gender and ICT researchers involving 14 research teams in 12 different African countries including Uganda.
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Women of Uganda Network with support from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP – EU (CTA) hosts the Lango Forum on e-Agriculture. This event is held twice a year in Apac District, Northern Uganda. This year the third Lango Forum on e–Agriculture will be held on the 18th February 2010.
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Submit your entry by the early entry deadline on March 1, 2010, and be eligible for additional prizes. Access the entry form online or download the entry form in word. |
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