Women of Uganda Network is a NGO initiated by women`s organisations in Uganda to develop the use of ICTs among women as tools to share information and address issues collectively. Read More...
The first Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Programme (CAADP) day meeting was held in Tripoli, Libya on 27th June 2009, organised by the African Union Commission and the AU-NEPAD, hosted by the great socialist people’s Libya Arab Jamahiriya. The meeting brought together ministers of agriculture from 8 African countries (including Egypt, Algeria, Uganda, Libya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Mozambique), development partners (European Commission, the World Bank, African Development Bank, and JIRCAS), representatives of civil society organisations including farmers’ organisations, women groups and the private sector.
Since inception in 2000, WOUGNET has hosted its websites and mailing lists with Kabissa, A network of African civil society organisations. However, in April 2009, Kabissa changed their mode of operation. They streamlined their Internet services to focus on being a trusted Domain Registrar for organizations in the Kabissa network. This means that while they will continue to register and help manage domain names for their member organizations, they will no longer offer website and email hosting services.
Therefore, just like other Kabissa members in Uganda and around Africa, WOUGNET had to find an alternative host for our email, website and mailing lists. We have found a new partner to host our mailing lists, the brand new Pamoya website. Pamoya is the first fully Ugandan Social Network, hosted and run inside Uganda. Currently in active beta, but steadily expanding to become the No #1 Ugandan website.
ICT refers to technology/tools that can be used to communicate information between individuals or groups of people. ICTs have been generally categorised as 1. Traditional ICTs (traditional musical instruments, notice board, public address system), 2. Modern ICTs (telephone, computer, cameras, voice recorders, audio CDs, radio) and 3. Social Online Networking Tools (web 2.0 – e.g. blogs, wiki, RSS, skype, Twitter, Face book and flickr etc. ICTs are widely recognised as key tools that can enable the participation of poor women and men in economic and civic life and help them to move out of poverty.
In June / July 2009, the AU Heads of State Summit will be held in Tripoli, Libya with a focus on agriculture on the theme ‘Investing in Agriculture for Economic Growth and Food Security’. The following sub themes where position papers are being prepared will also be discussed;
Climate Change: Opportunities for enhanced investments and growth of African Agriculture
Regional Agriculture trade and market systems: Issues and challenges for stimulating economic transformation and growth in Africa
Investment Financing: Making African Agriculture a viable investment option Stimulating participation of the ultra-poor in rural economic activities.
The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) in collaboration with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) organized a CICEWA East Africa research and advocacy workshop that was held on 25th - 28th May 2009 at Lenana Conference Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.
The workshop was part of the Communication for influence; Linking advocacy, dissemination and research by building ICTD networks in Central, East and West Africa (CICEWA) project supported by the International Development and Research Centre (IDRC). Seven CICEWA East Africa national networks in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda had conducted research to identify obstacles to universal affordable access to broadband ICT and this was an opportunity for the network researchers to submit their findings, which paved way for discussions on linking these findings to support advocacy activities.
