Women of Uganda Network

13.09.2003 The SOS Sudan Association has successfully set up schools to provide uninterrupted education to the children of Sudanese refugees in Uganda. The refugees were so fired with the need for education for children that they set up schools soon upon their arrival in Uganda. These schools teach more than 10,000 children.

09.07.2003 WOUGNET (Women of Uganda Network) has teamed up with InterConnection and the Byte to Byte Technology 4H Club to provide Websites for its members. The Byte to Byte club will design the Websites and InterConnection will provide the Internet hosting services and project management support.

12.06.2003 UNESCO in collaboration with AMARC Africa is organizing a pan-African symposium on Community Multimedia Centres from 12-17 June 2003 in Dakar, Senegal. The aim of this meeting is to find out more about how community radio stations across Africa are using ICTs in order to forge a strategy for larger-scale CMC development in Africa. The first part of this meeting will be a workshop from 12-15 June, bringing together representatives of a selection of community radio stations that are successfully offering some form of public access to ICTs or planning to do so and also ICT-based projects such as community telecentres planning to start community radio as part of their operations.

26.05.2003 The Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) has won this year's AISI Media Award for its innovative applications of ICTs to local content. Set up in May 2000 by several women's organisations, this NGO works to promote and support the use of ICTs by women and their organisations in Uganda.

29.04.2003 The African programme of the Digital Diaspora Initiative will be launched in Uganda's capital Kampala next week. The initiative was set up in January 2002 to build strategic partnerships between African IT entrepreneurs in the Diaspora and women's organisations and business associations in Africa.