Full coverage: Uganda

02.04.2008 BROSDI uses a multistakeholder approach by engaging government, private sector and civil society in knowledge sharing as a means of rural development. This is through using ICT methods, inclusive of online social networking applications and participatory methods

01.04.2008 For rural populace who could not buy mobile phones due to power shortage, a new system has been launched in Uganda that enables people to charge phones by using a bicycle. The system can charge eight phones per hour by riding a bicycle.

07.02.2008 The main objective of the project is to enable rural women entrepreneurs and women organizations that promote enterprise development to explore ways and means of exploiting ICTs for community economic empowerment.

Vision is a woman who is economically empowered and able to access and apply ICTÂ’s to promote her enterprise. The focus of the project is on building capacity of grass root women to access and utilize ICTs for enterprise development.

29.01.2008 A World Bank report has applauded Uganda for embracing new technologies in her development process. The report 'Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World' examines the state of technology in developing countries and the pace with which it has advanced since the early 1990s.

15.08.2007 Ugandalainen teleyritys on lahjoittanut viisi tietokonetta maan suurimmalle vankilalle käytettäväksi vankien koulutukseen. Vankien koulutukseen panostaminen kannattaa, sillä tilastojen mukaan vankeusaikana koulutusta saaneista 70 prosenttia sopeutuu yhteiskuntaan vapauduttuaan.

01.09.2006 Creative solutions are helping get kids in school and improve the quality of education.

06.06.2006 Dr. Ham-Mukasa Mulira, an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) expert has been appointed as the first minister to serve in a new ICT ministry.

05.06.2006 On 24 - 25th April 2006, the Uganda Rural ICT Partners Workshop was held under the theme “Building Sustainable Partners for Community Led ICTs for Rural Development”.

02.06.2006 The increase in mobile phones tariffs, fuel and manufactured consumer products have pushed Uganda's headline inflation rate to 7.0 percent.

01.06.2006 I thank UDS-Telecentre and Plan-Uganda for setting up the first public access Internet services in Kamuli. Introduction of such services has saved a number of people the burden of travelling long distances to acquire the same elsewhere.

02.05.2006 Located at the Congo-Uganda border 500 kilometres south west of Kampala, the Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH) Bwindi Impenetrable National Park telecentre - a combination of conservation and technology, is making a whole lot of a difference to the endangered mountain gorillas, eco-tourists, tourist stakeholders and locals who live in and around the park.

25.04.2006 A new study by Uganda's telecommunications regulator has showed that 46% of Ugandans in the capital, Kampala and three major towns use the Internet.

12.04.2006 If you want to register a domain name with a Ugandan country code, .ug, the man to speak to is Charles Musisi, an Internet entrepreneur who has managed the country's domain names over the past decade.

07.04.2006 Forty six percent of Ugandans, in a survey by the Uganda Communications Commission last year, said they use the Internet on a daily basis.

04.01.2006 The Ugandan Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry (MTTI) and its affiliated institutions met in a roundtable workshop at Jinja from 1 to 3 December 2005. The affiliated institutions are: namely Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), Uganda Export Promotion Board (UEPB), Management Training & Advisory Centre (MTAC), Uganda Tourism Board (UTB), Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI), Uganda Commodity Exchange (UCE), Uganda Wild Life Education Centre (UWEC) and Uganda Wild Life Authority (UWA).

04.01.2006 On December 8, 2005, dot-EDU set up a low-cost, low-energy using lab in rural Uganda that may be just the solution for places where electrical problems (surges, brief cuts, and brownouts) tend to damage ICT equipment.

28.11.2005 Uganda has become the first country in the world to benefit from a healthcare information system that manages, measures and monitors the distribution of Anti retroviral drugs (ARVs).

18.11.2005 STOCK exchange market in Kampala is to end issuing of paper certificates to investors in the capital market late this year by introducing electronic accounts.

21.10.2005 Conservation through Public Health (CTPH) in Bwindi, Uganda has built a telecentre in a bid to empower communities around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to improve health and livelihoods.

14.10.2005 A new computerised global distribution system that enables service providers like airlines, hotels and car rental companies disseminate information about their services will be launched in kampala, Uganda.