WOUGNET has moved office. We are now located at Plot 55 Kenneth Dale, Off Kira Road, Kamwokya. Our Telephone and Fax number remain the same. Directions: As you go from the old office (Plot 53 Kira Road) towards Kira Road Police Station, look for Kenneth Dale Road on your left before the play ground. Take this road to the WOUGNET office. Click here for a map.
Technological innovation is taking place at a breath-taking pace. Simple, open source internet-based applications and services designed to enhance on-line collaboration are now available to the wider public at little or no cost at all. These new online services known as Web 2.0 applications have enabled people, especially citizen Journalists to collaborate remotely in creating, sharing, networking, lobbying and publishing information about the FIFA 2010 worldcup . The 2010 FIFA world cup which is currently taking place in South Africa comes at a point when the use and application of web 2.0 tools has been adapted by many African people.
The recently completed eLearning Africa 2010 Photo Competition aimed at finding out "How ICTs Are Changing the Way We Live". To know what this has meant for the African continent and to learn more about how mobile phones, the Internet, computers and the audiovisual media have changed your life. More than 100 images were submitted to the competition.
We would like to congratulate all Ugandans who participated in the competition. 5 of the top 10 images submitted came from Uganda, with 2 of the TOP 10 coming from WOUGNET Staff Members (Ssozi Javie and Maureen Agena in the 4th and 6th Places respectively).
The TOP 10 photos will be featured at the 5th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre Lusaka, Zambia, May 26-28 2010.
The Uneven distribution of Information and Communication technologies (ICTs) within societies and across the globe has resulted into a “Digital divide” between those who have access to information resources and those who do not. Women’s lower levels of literacy and education relative to men, coupled with the negative attitude towards girls’ achievement in the field of science contribute to gender dimensions of the digital divide.
Women still have lower degree of economic security than men and face gender related constraints on their time and mobility. They are therefore less likely to access, use and participate in shaping the course of ICT compared to their male counterparts.
The annual Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) is a platform for bloggers, podcasters, vodcasters, mobile journalists, citizen reporters, new media practitioners, online industry experts and civil society representatives, as citizens who try to empower themselves and their community using new media technologies. The DCI takes place at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa just before the annual Highway Africa Conference (HA) in September. The DCI was established after it was recognised that Highway Africa could do more to encourage new media take-up by non-journalists, thereby ensuring that citizens have a (digital) voice too.
The first Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Programme (CAADP) day meeting was held in Tripoli, Libya on 27th June 2009, organised by the African Union Commission and the AU-NEPAD, hosted by the great socialist people’s Libya Arab Jamahiriya. The meeting brought together ministers of agriculture from 8 African countries (including Egypt, Algeria, Uganda, Libya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Mozambique), development partners (European Commission, the World Bank, African Development Bank, and JIRCAS), representatives of civil society organisations including farmers’ organisations, women groups and the private sector.
