[A12n-forum] Women's ICT-based Enterprises Guide & CD in Luganda & Luo

["Don Osborn" <dzo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI, this excerpt from the WOUGNET newsletter refers to a CD in
Luganda and Luo, as well as English.


--- In DigAfrica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dorothy Okello <dorothy.okello@...>
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WOUGNET Update Newsletter - April 2007
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A monthly electronic newsletter from Women of
Uganda Network (WOUGNET) - http://www.wougnet.org

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= WOUGNET launches Women's ICT-based Enterprises Guide and CD: "A
Guide to Promote, Initiate and Improve Women's ICT Based Enterprises
in Uganda"

In February 2006, WOUGNET hosted the "More and Better Women's
ICT-based Enterprises Workshop in Uganda" which is one element of the
Women's ICT-based Enterprises (WIE) project whose goal is the creation
of more and better women's ICT based enterprises in Uganda that are
majority-owned and/or run by women and that operate in the ICT sector.
The WIE project in Uganda is part of a global Women's ICT Enterprises
Project, which is coordinated by Dr. Richard Heeks of the University
of Manchester.

Subsequently, WOUGNET has produced a localized WIE Guide and CD. The
objective is to harness ICTs for socio-economic development. WIEs can
provide women with immediate benefits such as jobs, income, skills
empowerment etc. The WIE guide and CD are a tool to enable
understanding of how this happens. Both are available at the WOUGNET
Secretariat.

The guide at a cost of 7,000/= is in three languages: English, Luganda
and Luo. The CD, at a cost of 10,000/= contains the WIE workshop
report and photos, keynote speech by Dr. Margaret Kigozi - Executive
Director of Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), the localized support
guides and radio scripts in English, Luganda and Luo, as well as free
software.

The WIE project in Uganda is supported by the Institute for
Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester with
funding from the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

For more information about the WIE project and/or to obtain copies of
the guide or CD, please contact the WOUGNET Secretariat at:
Women of Uganda Network - WOUGNET
Plot 53 Kira Road, Kamwokya
Tel: 041 4532035
Fax: 041 4530474
Email: info@...
Web: http://www.wougnet.org/Projects/wieug.html


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