Theme: “e-Agriculture, Gender and ICTs: the role of information in agriculture and rural development”.

Women of Uganda Network with support of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP – EU (CTA), will hold the second Lango forum on e – agriculture in Apac district on the of 10th February 2009.  The forum will take place at the e-Society Hall, located at the Apac district Local Government, Apac town. The purpose of the forum is to sensitize rural women and the community at large on the role of information in agriculture and rural development with a gender perspective. Forum participants will share knowledge on the role of information in agriculture and rural development, the social challenges and benefits of ICT tools to men and women including the state of e-agriculture in Uganda.

This bi-annual fora includes Participants from the farming community, district leaders, Civil Society organisations from Apac, Gulu, Lira, and Oyam districts, and stakeholders from other areas of Uganda.Key issues arising from these foras and other project experiences are used to produce briefing papers with a focus on the benefits of ICT and gains from a programme that has working in an environment of limited ICT access.

In the promotion of the use of ICTs in rural development, WOUGNET works with the e-Society programme in Apac distict.

The programme seeks to foster collaboration between local government and civil society through the use of ICTs. It aims at improving service delivery and creating a transparent political environment by using ICTs as a tool to improve co-operation between stakeholders. Funded by Hivos and IICD, it involves local government at the district and sub-county levels as well as CSOs active at district and community level. One of the major activities of the programme is the collection, management, storage, packaging, re-packaging and distribution of information to beneficiaries and stakeholders of the programme.

For more Information, please contact:

Janet Cox Achora,
Senior Program Officer, Information Sharing and Networking
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Tel: 041 4532035