Following the expiry of the previous 2003–2008 policy, UCC has been developing a new RCDF policy for 2009-2014. A stakeholders' workshop was organized on 30^th July 2009 to discuss the draft policy for RCDF II at Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala. The second phase of the rural communications development policy (RCDP-II), while continuing to address the broad underlying issues of underserved areas, will particularly focus on three aspects that are key for the development of Uganda as an information society.

The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) in collaboration with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) organized a CICEWA East Africa research and advocacy workshop that was held on 25^th - 28^th May 2009 at Lenana Conference Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. 

The workshop was part of the Communication for influence; Linking advocacy, dissemination and research by building ICTD networks in Central, East and West Africa (CICEWA) project supported by the International Development and Research Centre (IDRC). Seven CICEWA East Africa national networks in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda had conducted research to identify obstacles to universal affordable access to broadband ICT and this was an opportunity for the network researchers to submit their findings, which paved way for discussions on linking these findings to support advocacy activities.