In particular, his primary assignment will be the Power-Up! program. Geared toward improving women’s current status — whether they are unemployed or looking to move up the career ladder or need to enhance their computer skills. Owiny will help with that computer component, offering ways to do social networking via Facebook, Twitter and the like. Women of Uganda Network’s mission is to promote and support the use of such communication technologies as tools to share information and address issues of sustainable national development, he said. He had an internship at the Network and also got a two-year contract as assistant projects officer. It has seemed a good fit for someone who grew up in northern Uganda, where “poverty, ignorance and illiteracy was the order of the day”.