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Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) in partnership with the Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Programme (APC WNSP) is pleased to invite you to participate in the Take Back the Tech Campaign 2010.
‘Take Back the Tech’ is a collaborative global campaign that calls upon all ICT users to take control of technology and use it to change gender power relations. WOUGNET will be working to localise actions of the Take Back the Tech Campaign to WOUGNET network during the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence from November 25 to December 10 2010.
This year’s regional theme is “Engaging Faith-based Communities to Prevent Violence against Women” and WOUGNET will focus its campaign on encouraging local communities to use ICTs to combat VAW.
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The mWomen team has announced the launch of the mWomen BOP App Challenge sponsored by Vodafone, at the official launch of the mWomen programme at the US State Department hosted by Secretary Hillary Clinton on 7th October 2010.
This exciting challenge, supported by Frog Design and Carmel Ventures aims to build on the momentum currently in the marketplace for innovative app design and to provide fresh, original app solutions for women in developing countries living on under $2 a day. It also aims to catalyse an increase in the adoption and use of services provided through mobile technology, enhancing and empowering women’s decision making process.
This challenge is in line with the mWomen programme objectives of bringing access and innovative products and services to currently unconnected women in developing countries. It is a two tier competition: Tier 1 will be an App for a low end device and Tier 2 will be an App for Smart Phones.
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Got from : http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/09/21/5018330.htm
Sep 21, 2010 (America.gov/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) –
"My goat is sick. Its neck is swollen. It can't eat," an old woman in a remote village in Uganda said. She spoke to a man passing by with a mobile phone. "Let me see if I can help," said Laban Rutagumirwa. He sent off a text message that read "goat bloat." The message went to an agriculture information service devised by the Grameen Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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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.
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SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa is a book that offers practical examples of how activists in Africa are using mobile technology to organise and document their experiences and how the phones' capabilities have had a dynamic influence on activists’ aims and strategies.
The authors – activists, academics and technology specialists – look at inequalities in access to technology based on gender and rural and urban usage, and consider how mobile phones’ increasing integration with the internet helps activists internationalize their struggles.
SMS Uprising is now available at http://fahamubooks.org/book/?GCOI=90638100577370
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