Edwin Galiwango's Blog (5)

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

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

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

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

“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