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Important Notice

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.

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Information sharing and networking: This program aims at providing relevant information to urban and rural women and sharing of experiences for purposes of improving quality of lives. Information sharing and networking is conducted in a variety of ways including through an electronic mailing list, a monthly electronic newsletter with updates on the activities of WOUGNET members and the secretariat, the WOUGNET website www.wougnet.org, a quarterly print newsletter “WOUGNET News”, as well as online and face-to-face workshops. The secretariat also houses a Resource Centre with a variety of information on ICT for development.
In addition, a project on “Enhancing Access to Agricultural Information using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Apac District” was initiated to develop and improve information and communication systems so as to enable easy access to agricultural information for rural women farmers via a variety of ICTs including mobile phones, radio cassettes, and community radio. Located in Apac town, the Kubere Information Centre (KIC) was established to act both as an Information Resource point as well as to support project implementation and two-way linkages with the women farmers. This project was initiated with support from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA).

Technical support: This program aims at supporting women organisations to access, utilise and apply ICTs in addressing their development problems. Under this program, WOUGNET activities may be categorised in 4 areas; Access to Technology, ICT Training, Tech Support and Tech Tips all geared at enabling WOUGNET members to identify and strategically apply appropriate technologies. Access to Technology keeps the members abreast with developments in technology, ICT Training provides training as well as introduces the members to other training opportunities, Tech Support provides hands-on technical support in the use of ICT, while TechTips provides helpful tips to help address day-to-day issues in the use of Information and Communication Technologies.

Gender and ICT Policy Advocacy: The program aims at building capacity of network members to effectively influence the formulation and implementation of gender sensitive ICT policies and programs. WOUGNET serves as secretariat for the Uganda Women’s Caucus on ICT (UWCI) to undertake advocacy activities geared towards addressing gender concerns within the ICT Policies and programs. Primarily funded by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), advocacy activities include building the capacity of policy makers, ICT experts and the media to articulate gender issues in the on-going ICT policy processes (e.g., conduct public fora, gender analysis training), advocating for gender sensitive ICT policy processes (e.g., produce policy briefs), and assessing the implementation of ICT policies (e.g., assessment of the the Rural Communications Development Fund from a gender perspective).