Most participants in the discussion
(question 1) were network leaders and ICT for Development practitioners. Amongst these were; Mahmud Hasan, Niranjan Meegammana, Sulah Ndaula, Jimmy L. Calata, Terek Fahmy, Elizabeth Yumul-Manugue, Roger Harris, Polly Gaster, Muwayi Idd, Tareq Ahmed, Kiringai Kamau, Dean Mulozi, Cleopa Timon Otieno, Robinson Wikana Mukangayi, Cuchie…
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The World Bank says it will spend $215 million to help central African countries provide better quality and more affordable high-speed Internet service.
The bank noted that the funds will be used to build a broadband Internet infrastructure in 11 African countries.
It is argued that this is to further boost connectivity in central African countries as they currently offer the worst quality and most expensive internet services in the continent.
The initial phase of the 10-year program, called…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on November 17, 2009 at 3:35am —
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Earlier this summer, MTN ( biggest telecom in Ug) alongside google launched
Google SMS, a suite of SMS services in Uganda. One of these services, Google Trader, provides people with greater access to new markets and trade opportunities. The SMS version of Google Trader brings together buyers and sellers of products or services in a "marketplace" using their mobile phones. Whether buying or selling agricultural products, cars, jobs, services, electronics or real estate, anyone can post or…
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More than half of the 800 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in South Africa say that information technology has had a major effect on their ability to advance human rights and they are starting to realise the potential of mobile technology and social networking , a study has found.
The results highlighted the increasing value of the cellphone. A quarter of NGOs used custom applications on cellphones, such as medication maintenance systems for patients with HIV/AIDS or TB, which remind patie…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on October 26, 2009 at 3:00am —
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Though various African countries monitor and restrict Internet access in some way, Ethiopia is the only country with a technical filtering regime in the sub-Saharan region, according to a report by OpenNet Initiative, a collaborative partnership between Harvard, Toronto, Cambridge and Oxford universities.
The study, conducted in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda and Zimbabwe between 2008 and 2009, found that though sub-Saharan Africa has a history of controlling freedom of expression, Ethiopia was the…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on October 19, 2009 at 3:30am —
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An Internet service linking African parliaments will be created to enable MPs around the continent to share oversight experiences and views on matters of governance, noted Dr. Ahmed Fathi Sorour, speaker of the Egyptian Parliament.
Sorour was attending the first African Parliamentary Speakers' Conference, organised by the Pan- African Parliament (PAP) in Midrand, Johannesburg, last week.
The service will facilitate synergies of policies between parliaments, which are essential to build confide…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on October 13, 2009 at 3:00am —
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On the 22nd and 23rd of Sept.2009, Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) in collaboration with the Association for Progressive Communication Women's Network Support Program ( APC WNSP) held a National Strategy Workshop at NobView Hotel, Kampala Uganda whose main objective was to enable stakeholders in the areas of Violence Against Women (VAW) and ICT to explore and understand the connections between VAW and ICT; and develop strategies to find collective and integrated solutions to end violence again…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on September 25, 2009 at 3:30am —
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The revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) has vast implications for the developing world, but what tangible benefits has it brought when issues of social inclusion and exclusion, particularly in the developing world, remain at large? In addition, the gender digital divide is growing in the developing world, particularly in Africa. So what do ICTs mean to African women?
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Added by Sandra Nassali on August 27, 2009 at 4:30am —
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On 17th Aug, 2009, telecentre.org alongside UgaBYTES organized a media dinner at Arirang Hotel Kampala whose aim was to discuss the state of ICTs in rural development including that of telecentres, the challenges journalists face in their quest to write about ICT4D; and the action points that would map out the way forward to increasing media coverage of technology solutions in development.
It also meant to engage/encourage journalists to cover issues concerning ICT4D in the region. Given the ro…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on August 20, 2009 at 5:30am —
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The SEACOM fiber-optic cable linking Southern and Eastern Africa to global telecommunications networks via India and Europe has gone live with high expectations that it will lower the cost of communications in Africa.
The cable has simultaneously launched in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa and Uganda. It is widely seen to be opening up opportunities for governments and business to use the network as a platform to compete globally and drive economic growth.
Backhauls linking Johannesb…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on July 27, 2009 at 3:49am —
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Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario released a beta version of an open source technology designed to give developing regions access to the Web for e-mail and for information on agricultural best practices and health care.
How this could facilitate rural business process outsourcing
Currently, the biggest challenges to Internet communications in developing countries is keeping it cheap and robust, but the technology, VLink, is designed to be a cost-effective approach to…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on July 20, 2009 at 7:30am —
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In it’s bid to increase information accessibility to its customers, MTN {largest mobile operator in Africa and the Middle East} has introduced a smarter way of accessing information on their mobile phones. With GoogleSMS, all a client has to do is to send an SMS on any idea and get an instant answer.
For instance, if one wants to buy or sell something, get news updates {both local and international}, advice on sexual and reproductive health, agriculture and farming tips and many others, all the…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on July 9, 2009 at 7:30am —
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The increase in pirate activity during April and May 2009, both in terms of intensity and geographical coverage, necessitated a change in SEACOM’s cable installation plans which resulted in a delay in the ready for service date from 27 June 2009 to 23 July 2009. The planned route required the ship to transit an area of increased pirate activity where other ships had been attacked or seized.
The cable deployment in the troublesome waters has since been completed and splicing to connect the secti…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on July 8, 2009 at 7:00am —
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In her budget speech, the minister for Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Syda Bumba said the thrust of the Financial Year 2009/10 Budget is based on the following policy initiatives:
i) Increasing agricultural productivity and production,
ii) Increasing agro-processing and value addition,
iii) Increasing investment in infrastructure and human resource development to facilitate regional trade and economic growth.
Given the limited resources, Government must allocate its resources t…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on June 25, 2009 at 3:30am —
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UGANDA Green Computers, an initiative by the Government of Uganda to avail affordable computers to small and medium size enterprises, is under threat of cloned computers that are being dumped in the market.
The joint venture between the Government of Uganda, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation and Microsoft is yet to deliver to its optimum.
Launched in June last year, Uganda Green Computers was meant first to refurbish and later start recycling computers.
The initiative was born…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on June 18, 2009 at 3:35am —
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Presentations of challenges faced by telecentres and telecentre managers for the East African Telecentre Academy meeting held at Kyambogo University
Peter Balaba- Nakaseke Community Multimedia Centre
Location; Nakaseke CMC is located at Nakaseke Sub-County Headquarters, Nakaseke District, 75 km North of Kampala (16 km off Kampala –Gulu road). The CMC was established in 1997 as part of the series of a pilot initiative to introduce, test, disseminate and assess the impact and viability of CMCs in…
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Definition of a curriculum
The original meaning of curriculum in Latin meant a race – a specified distance to be run. In education, where the word curriculum has been imported, like in a race, there are starting points, purpose destinations/targets and specifications of routes. A good curriculum therefore presupposes good planning – one of the purposes of this workshop.
Curriculum can be broadly defined as sum total of all the experiences a learner undergoes under the guidance of the sch…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on June 1, 2009 at 3:30am —
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NComputing has partnered with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) to provide 500,000 computers to primary and secondary schools in 60 developing countries by 2012.
NComputing, a provider of ultra low-cost computing technology, developed the program jointly with the UNDESA Global Alliance for ICT Development (GAID).
"Access to computing technology is a cornerstone for education, social, and economic development in the 21st century," said Sarbuland Khan, executi…
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