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.
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.
Women of Uganda Network in collaboration with BROSDI organized a two-day (23-24 March 09) training on how to use web 2.0 tools.
The training centered around Blogging, though we did address other questions and issues too, such as why blogging, digital story telling ,use of citizen-media tools other than blogging; and how blogging might be employed to address poverty, violence, child sacrifice among other issues.
Dignity in Poverty is a BBC Citizen Journalism project asking people about their housing situation, access to food, water and toilet facilities and access to electricity and also access to health care and education. In what ways are people poor - how does this make them feel and do they feel that they are respected despite being poor, how do poor people retain their dignity, in what area if any, are they losing their dignity and what is their self respect as human beings like?
The Dignity in Poverty project coincided with the UN's Eradication of Poverty Day - which was also the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. The BBC Citizen Journalism Project invited WOUGNET to contribute to the stories for the day.
Highway Africa conference 2008 was the place to be 7th -10th September 2008. An incredibly rich program of lectures, workshops, discussions and interactive events… The choice of what to attend was at times confusing but it was worth it. The conference was not limited to discussion on the theme ‘Citizen Journalism, Journalism for citizens but had training sessions on how to track stories with google tools, blogging, pod casts among others.
