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ICTs: Is your wealth a click away -- SMS/email from Day3: 24 April 08

1. Today’s question: What is not being done to use ICTs in the fight to reduce poverty, and why?

2. Janet Achora: At policy level, poverty eradication & ICT strategies are treated as separate entities or in isolation of each other, but they must be integrated.

3. Betty Olochan: Skills in ICT and access to ICT facilities is very important.

4. Paul Othieno: More subsidized cost and rural user friendly ICTs and encourage ICT training, involve gov’t intervention in the ICT equipment procurement, facilitate entrepreneurs in using ICT, encourage research using ICT about poverty.

5. Esta Kiwazi: WOUGNET & like partners increase capacity of small rural women organizations to sustain internet connectivity as a way of promoting local content sharing and ICT access. 6. Peace Kyamureku: We should not forget gender based violence that is a result of ICT. It is a challenge but an opportunity to let society know and demand for rights on information and privacy.

7. Jolly Twahiirwa: The poorest most deserving community is not reached because poverty fighting programs and ICT are for those who can reach them, not those who need to be reached.

8. Eunice Kintu: Not everybody is exposed to ICT while others think that its too late 2 learn so it’s our duty 2 come out and sensitize everybody including the policy makers and show them how ICT can help the ordinary people over come poverty.

9. Agnes Kadama: Not including the rural people and these are mainly the women. Because it has been hijacked by the few elites in urban areas & gender biases.

10. Cissy Edith Nyarwa NVIWODA: 1st day - •ICTs are efficient tools to empower women of the world. Why not this millennium equip them with sufficient skills, to enable them manipulate the power of information and knowledge, ICTs will remain theoretical to them if at all often heard of. They can utilize them anywhere they would be, they are flexible. •Linking urban with rural communities with the power of ICTs could be of great miracle, that can reduce poverty for a more just world order, in which every male and female worldwide could access the opportunity and potential to realize the power of knowledge and information. •Majority rural, are the backbone production of National Domestic Growth Profit, ICTs remain theoretical unless the gap of need to make these tools and the role they play for development, is clearly understood by them, poverty would remain part of their lives. •If the rural poor have to manipulate ICTs for poverty reduction, there is need to cut down exorbitant costs of cell phone utilities i.e. airtime, cell phones and improved infrastructure . 2nd day - •Improved infrastructure will support ICTs to improve poverty in rural areas, because they are most poverty stricken than anybody else. 3rd day - •More accelerated promotion of ICTs . •The campaign should target the rural majority of this nation. •Provide tools and other sources of power to enable rural majority feel the power of ICTs. •Equip the age divide gap of society with ICTs knowledge and skills to facilitate them utilize the ICTs tools to reduce poverty. •Communities need to understand what Poverty is more clearly. The government should formulate policies that protect the poor people from being exploited by the middle buyers.

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Posted by Aramanzan Madanda, on 15-05-2008 11:08,

1. Not Focusing RCDF properly

Not focusing the rural access fund properly to inlude especially women's organisations, schools and youth groups has missed out a huge opportunity. There is also need for mass sensitization on how ICTs can be harnessed

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