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ICTs: Is your wealth a click away -- SMS/email from Day2: 23 April 08

1. Today’s question: How can ICTs be embedded into effective strategies for reducing poverty? Again contributions can be sent by SMS or email.

2. George Ayomiire: ICTs would do a tremendous work to improving the remotest rural communities’ livelihood is two crucial issues of FAL and Rural electrification were 1^st given due consideration without which it will remain a theory without impact.

3. Okello Tom Baropobo -Apac: Yes, not only with the use of computers, a lot of information is accessed through mobile phones which are now affordable at grassroot levels. What we need is awareness on the use of new services.

4. PD Othieno: ICT is effective given that it creates a linkage to resources and hence poverty reduction. However it is still inaccessible to the poor esp. women. Increase accessibility in rural communities.

5. Jolly Twahiirwa: ICT in Uganda isn’t even a well defined theory but a fancy which has no justifiable bearing on development and poverty eradication esp. amongst women. To me its vice versa development enhances ICT.

6. Jolly Twahiirwa: ICT can be imbedded in strategies to reduce poverty by agencies going down to the grassroots and highlighting the extreme poverty cases for gov’t and donor interest like vumbula program in WBS and by the govt and donors putting the resources to end users.

7. Patrick Kaija: Promote local languages, raise awareness and sensitize the communities through demos, talks, debates and songs/drama about ICT.

8. Betty Akullu JOWORWU: Capacity building and easy access to the available ICTs be done for the rural women if change is to be created.

9. Florence Tumuheirwe: Design out reach training programs for rural women and open for them web pages. Facilitate formation of district networks and focal point organizations. Equip them to package messages for areas without power and technology.

10. Jovanice ROWOSA: Thank u WOUGNET, this is a commendable job well done although the SMS inbox overload is being experienced. I support 2 be sent 2 WOUGNET blog. Thanks a lot indeed revolutions begin small.

11. Vincent Mugaba: Telecoms should be encouraged with development agencies in providing a cheap platform for delivering SMS market info. Govt should also support content developers on the mobile platform.

12. Agnes Kadama: In the developed world it is true but in Uganda especially in the rural areas where the bulk of the population is found it is not true. It is still theory and a myth. The rural woman who contributes to the bulk of socio-economic development has been left out. How ICT is used to reduce poverty: information dissemination about prices of agricultural produce, business opportunities on certain web portals, early warning systems to farmers to plant in the right seasons or not to plant at all, e-commerce - establish shops on the net to sell worldwide e.g. crafts for rural women, phone booths especially those owned by women, community radios to train people in wealth creation and community telecentres which are set up train people in sorts of development. What more can be done: Functional adult literacy programmes in communities to demystify ICT especially for the case of the rural woman, conscious raising, 2-generational approach - training both the young and old generation in ICT; Gov't funded community telecentres established, involving the entire community in establishing and running community ICTs. In all these programmes there should be affirmative action in case of the women.