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Mon, Feb 27th
CSW 56: Rural Women Empowerment, Poverty Reduction, and Rural Development

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WOUGNET is located at Plot 55 Kenneth Dale, Off Kira Road, Kamwokya. Directions: After the Kamwokya market as you travel along Kira road, turn off to your left onto Kenneth Dale, (just before the football field and Kira Road Police Station). Once on Kenneth Dale, look out for the WOUGNET sign post on your left towards the end of the road. Click here for a map.

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The Citizen Journalism workshop has started. The 18 or so people attending are expecting to develop writing, journalism, internet, and blogging skills. Most represent local non-governmental organizations dealing with issues like domestic violence, ICT and women, gender development and equality and more. Lillian from BROSDI has elaborated on what citizen journalism is and how it can be used for advocacy and awareness building. Joseph, a soon-to-be graduate from Makerere University, talked about journalism/blogging ethics. A fiery discussion ensued on whether journalists in Uganda should be facilitated (transport, food) for their work. The group also discussed whether journalism ethics apply to Citizen Journalists. Lillian continued with a short introduction to Web 2.0 and its various features. The group then moved into Isis-WICCE’s computer lab for some hands-on training. Everyone was told to start a blog and become familiar with its various features. Half the group has signed onto WordPress accounts (faster loading in Uganda) and the other half on Blogger. The benefit of signing up to blogger means you get a gmail account with access to websites like Google Picasa, Google Reader, GMail and more. Participants are encouraged to comment on the workshop. Sorry about the inconveniences caused by the internet. We would recommend that you skip out on that as you comment. Thank you all for participating and look forward to giving you more through this workshop. WOUGNET

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Posted by Dorothy Okello, on 16-07-2008 04:28,

1. Thank you for update

Thank you for this update, and look forward to the blogs from the workshoip participants

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