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On March the 17th, 2009, a group of young professionals, area politicians and local leaders converged at the Islands Club on Bugala of the Ssese Islands to discuss the use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to bridge the information ga…
July 7
Hello Edwin, Perhaps you can highlight to us all what are the main challenges and solutions that have been highlighted in the conference as far as elearning was concerned? I remembered most the issues in elearning Africa 2008 was more on the need f…
July 4
Edwin "information and communication technologies (ICTs) could speed up » the learning process." It takes lots of courrage to change exsisting paradigms, e learning complements and also create new domains of knowledge, produces distinct people, yet…
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At the just concluded e-learning Africa held in Senegalese, Gambia, the The President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, has outlined his vision for radical change in African education even as he criticized European governments for restricting access for A…
July 3
Edwin Galiwango added a blog post
At the just concluded e-learning Africa held in Senegalese, Gambia, the The President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, has outlined his vision for radical change in African education even as he criticized European governments for restricting access for A…
July 3
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At 2:29am on October 15, 2009, Seuwandi Yapa said…
Dear Edwin,
Greetings from telecentre.org!!!!!
Hope you have received my message.
Best,
Seuwandi
At 10:23am on March 19, 2009, Sandra Nassali said…
Hello Edwin, finally we get to see you!! that is better than the cat :-)
At 5:06am on November 25, 2008, Sandra Nassali said…
Hello Edwin, am so happy you have already started to actively participate on the site. Please keep it up. We always feature active members but only if they have a photo..please upload one on to your profile. In this way, you can easily be featured on the site given the fact that you are active.

Sandra
At 5:02am on November 25, 2008, Francis Mwathi said…
Great blog buddy, keep it up
At 2:20am on November 24, 2008, Francis Mwathi said…
Thanks for joining the EA practitioners group. Follow through our discussions and possibly add your comments
At 2:46am on November 21, 2008, Francis Mwathi said…
Hallo Edu, this is great having you on our website. Am particularly intersted in your line of work, there is alot of activitty your are involved in, We really want to hear frm you.

Regards
At 4:47am on November 20, 2008, Sandra Nassali said…
Hello Edwin, welcome to telecentre.org. Please up load a photo on your profile as we love giving a face to the community and follow http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/notes/Getting_Started for the community guide. In case of anything, feel free to contact me.
Cheers
Sandra

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Edwin Galiwango

YAF Workshop: Bridging the information gap in Kalangala using ICT’s

On March the 17th, 2009, a group of young professionals, area politicians and local leaders converged at the Islands Club on Bugala of the Ssese Islands to discuss the use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to bridge the information gap on the island district of Kalangala. Ms. Natalie Kimbugwe of BDE Consult conceived the idea of involving, training and sensitising local leaders to the value of ICT after discovering that the only Internet provider and Information Centre on the isla… Continue

Posted on July 7, 2009 at 3:48am —

Edwin Galiwango

At e-learning Africa, Gambia outlines vision for African education

At the just concluded e-learning Africa held in Senegalese, Gambia, the The President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, has outlined his vision for radical change in African education even as he criticized European governments for restricting access for African students.

In a wide ranging and controversial speech at ‘eLearning Africa,’ the continent’s major conference on online education, the 85-year old President said that technology now allowed African students unlimited access to the best universi… Continue

Posted on July 3, 2009 at 2:53am — 3 Comments

Edwin Galiwango

Keeping up with the times


Chandra at his training at the Sightsavers-Vision Aid computer center at Visakhapatnam


With the current technological boom in India, employment opportunities are rife; a thumbs up for the economy of a country that’s still considered ‘developing’. However, is it possible for pe… Continue

Posted on February 19, 2009 at 7:00am —

Edwin Galiwango

Ugandan MPs Approve $75 Million for Data Backbone

Uganda's parliament has approved a US$75 million loan for the second and third phases of the national data transmission backbone.

The first phase, which covered Uganda's capital city and three other urban areas cost some US$30 million and is the basis for the next two phases.

The first phase has also resulted in the establishment of an integrated e-government platform that is meant to ease and cut communication costs across government."As I speak, parliament has approved funding for the second… Continue

Posted on December 17, 2008 at 6:15am —

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“REFURBS OR REJECTS”; A DEBATE ON THE REFURBISHED COMPUTERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

“Refurbs or rejects” turned out to be the focus of the debate during the i-network forum held at the Grand imperial Royale on September 23, 2008.On the debating panel was Mr. David Leysens of Close the Gap and Joachim Gwoke of Africa leadership Institute for the themed motion “Refurbished computers” and Mr. Kato William from Data Fundi and Ms Edith Birungi Kahubire on the opposing side. The proponents argued that there was need to bridge the information gap, characteristic of the developing coun… Continue

Posted on November 25, 2008 at 4:46am — 3 Comments

 
 

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