WOUGNET Update Newsletter - July 2006

[Dorothy Okello <dokello@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

WOUGNET Update Newsletter ­ July 2006
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This month's contents:
1. Women Organizations in Uganda
2. ICT Policy
3. Links & Resources
4. Project News and Events
5. TechTip
6. WOUGNET News
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WOMEN ORGANISATIONS IN UGANDA
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= Gabula Atudde Women Grip (GWG)
http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/gabula.html
Based in Mukono, Gabula Atudde Women Grip works 
towards formation of a data base & knowledge 
centre through Information Collecting, Recording 
and sharing using ICTs for sustainable development of the low income
communities. GWG is a registered Community Based 
Organization established in 1994 by three elderly 
women by then as a Group which later changed to 
Grip in 2003, with 45 members (grip meaning women 
firm and consistent hold on issues of 
development). The organisation is also one of the 
Open Knowledge Network (OKN) Access Points in Uganda.
http://www.wougnet.org/wo_dir.html#GWG


= Young Women Christian Association (YWCA)
http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/ywca.html
YWCA?s mission is to build a fellowship of women 
and girls devoted to the task of realizing in 
common life those ideas of personal and social 
living to which they are committed by their faith 
as Christians. Established in 1952 YWCA has 
spread branches across the country covering 
Kampala, Jinja, Entebbe, Wakiso, Mpigi, Masaka, 
Iganga, Mbale, Mbarara, Kabale, Fortportal, 
Ntugamo, Kasese, Tororo, Palisa, Sironko, Soroti, Mukono, Busia.
http://www.wougnet.org/wo_dir.html#YWCA



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ICT POLICY
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= ?More and Better Women?s ICT-based Enterprises in Uganda?
http://www.wougnet.org/News/wieug.html

The Women?s ICT-based Enterprises (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 and 
funded by the UK Department for International 
Development (DFID). The Ugandan WIE project is 
coordinated by Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET), 
supported by an advisory group composed of 
Ugandan participants to an India August 2005 
workshop in which the English-language version of 
a handbook on supporting women?s ICT-based enterprises was reviewed.
In Uganda, there are two aspects to the WIE 
project. The first aspect of the Ugandan project 
involves localization and use of the guidance 
handbook on creating and supporting women?s ICT 
based enterprises. The second aspect of the 
Ugandan project was to run a workshop that 
motivates key stakeholders (government, NGO, 
private sector, community organisations, donors, 
banks, and training institutions among others) to 
initiate and promote women ICT-based enterprises. 
The objective was to launch the handbook 
localisation process and to develop national and 
local action plans to promote, initiate and 
improve WIEs. The WIE workshop also included a 
?market place? where women?s ICT-based 
enterprises exhibited their products and services.
For a copy of the WIE workshop report, send email 
to info@xxxxxxxxxxx, or download a copy (PDF format, 700KB) from:
http://www.wougnet.org/News/wieug.html



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LINKS & RESOURCES
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a) Fundraising

= Basic Fund-Raising for Small NGOs in Developing Countries
http://www.wougnet.org/Links/generalresources.html#FNGO
Some of the most frequently asked questions 
(FAQs) to forums for community-based 
organizations (CBOs) in developing countries, 
whatever the subject, are regarding funding. In 
addition, the first impulse of many such 
non-governmental organization (NGO) seeking 
funding is to request the contact information for 
possible funders, and once such information is 
received, these NGOs often write immediately to 
the potential funder, stressing how desperately 
funds are needed. Sadly, this approach often does 
harm to the NGO, rather than garnering support. 
Not only does it rarely attract funding, it can 
turn funding sources against the NGO altogether.
The 'Basic Fund-Raising for Small NGOs serving 
the developing world' guide is meant to provide 
very basic guidelines for small NGOs in the 
developing world regarding fund-raising, and to 
point to other resources. For a copy of the guide 
(PDF format), send email to info@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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PROJECT NEWS AND EVENTS
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== AITEC Uganda 2006, 12-14 July 2006, Rwenzori 
Ballroom - The Sheraton Hotel, Kampala, Uganda
The 2006 AITEC UGANDA exhibition will provide a 
platform for the country's growing population of 
ICT users in government and the private sector to 
assess latest technologies and the services offered by vendors and service
providers. The event is targeting several key 
audiences: NGOs/civil society organisations 
directly involved with connectivity, 
Policy-makers, ISPs, Telecom regulators, 
Incumbent telcos, and Consumers/end-users. All 
visitors that supply a business card will gain free entry.
There will also be an ICT4D exhibition stall 
including I-Network Uganda, EACOSS, CIPESA and WOUGNET.
For more information, contact:
Daniel Stern, Coordinator: 0782 115363 dstern@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Abigail Inapat, Assistant Coordinator: 0782 082030 inaabigail@xxxxxxxxxxx
Stanley Murekyezi, Sales Representative: 0772 
374810 & 0712 233325 stanleym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


== 2006 AISI Media Awards, Deadline for Applications: 15 August 2006
http://www.wougnet.org/Events/projectnews06.html#AISI06
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and its 
partners are pleased to announce the 2006 AISI 
Media Awards. The AISI Media Awards were 
introduced in 2003 to encourage more informed 
coverage of the information society and ICT for 
development issues in Africa as part of ECA's 
Information Society Outreach and Communication 
Programme. The Awards are aimed at individual 
journalists and media institutions based in 
Africa that are promoting journalism which 
contributes to a better understanding of the 
information society in Africa. The deadline for 
the 2006 AISI Media Awards programme is 15 August 2006.


== I-Network Public Debate on Gender and ICTs, 
Topic: ?Gender and ICT, Why the Fuss??
I-Network Uganda will host a Public Debate on 
Gender and ICTs, Topic: ?Gender and ICT, Why the 
Fuss??. As many of us could have noted, 
Information Technologies have become a potent 
force in transforming social, economic, and 
political life globally, without its 
incorporation into the information age there is 
little chance for countries or regions to 
develop. The uneven distribution of these 
technologies within societies and across the 
world has been termed as the ?digital divide? 
which reflects the ?haves? and the ?have nots?. 
Now the gender gap in the digital divide is of 
increasing concern, if access to and use of these 
technologies is directly linked to social and 
economic development then it is imperative to 
ensure that women in developing countries 
understand the significance of these technologies 
and use them, if not then lack of access to 
Information and Communication Technologies will 
become if not already a significant factor in the 
further marginalization of women from economic, 
social, and political mainstream of their countries and the world over.
There are a series of factors which constrain 
women?s access to Information and Communication 
Technologies and these include:- Literacy and 
education, Language, Time, Costs, Geographical 
location of facilities, Social and cultural 
norms, and Women?s computer and information 
research and dissemination skills, etc. However 
Information Technology increases transparency as 
a tool for networking and hence can lead to 
women?s empowerment, politically, socially etc 
therefore a need to include gender concerns in IT 
policy which would possibly increase women?s 
access to infrastructure and education 
opportunities. The UN places access to 
information technology as third most important 
issue facing women globally after poverty and 
violence against women, given the high profile of 
this issue the time is ripe to act and ensure 
that women in developing countries can enter the information age.
The I-Network Public Debate is scheduled for 14 
July 2006, at the Grand Imperial Hotel - Shelina 
Hall, from 2:00 - 6:00pm. All are welcome. For 
further information, contact Natalie Kimbugwe, 
I-Network Program Manager, <kimbugwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.


== UgaBYTES E-conference "Overcoming challenges: 
Mapping the future of our telecentres", 1 - 31 July, 2006
A telecentre providing information and knowledge 
access to an African or Asian rural village has 
got several challenges. However, alternative 
solutions and opportunities remain little 
exploited through sharing experiences and 
grassroots stories. This month long e-conference 
aims at broadly mapping the way forward to the 
core problems affecting telecentre work across the world.
The e-conference will be run on four weekly sub 
themes with each facilitated by a resource person 
and having an opening keynote word from a subject 
matter specialist. The facilitator will summarize 
the days? and week?s discussion for each sub 
theme. The daily summaries will also focus next 
day?s discussion. Four e-conference reports will 
be produced according to the sub themes of the 
conference, which will be distributed in the 
September East African Telecentre leaders forum 
in Uganda. The four conference sub themes are:
Week 1: Demystifying Solar Energy for ICTs: The 
case of solar power providers and Telecentre practitioners
Week 2: Options for rural connectivity: the challenges and opportunities
Week 3: The role of ICT access points to rural 
social-economic development: The missing link and framework
Week 4: Telecentre sustainability: The 
contribution of delivering social services through existing access points
The e-conference will be run on the UgaBYTES 
mailing list ugabytes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Interested 
practitioners or participants who are not yet on 
the list can write to the 
secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxx requesting to be 
subscribed for the conference which starts on 
July 1 and ends on 31st July 2006.



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TechTip
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= Recovering the Administrator Password

User: I need to log on as the local admin on one 
of our laptops running Windows operating system, 
but the previous admin guy gave it one that I cannot recall.
Techie:  The first step to gaining access to the 
system is by trying hard to remember the 
forgotten password, or a password of another user 
which has the same level of administrative rights.
Another method is by trying to restore a backed 
up System State (in Windows 2000/XP/2003) or a 
ERD (in NT 4.0) in which you do remember the 
password. The problem with doing so is that 
you'll probably lose all of the recently
add users and groups, and all the changed 
passwords for all of your users since the last backup was made.
A third method might be to install a parallel 
operating system on a different partition on the 
same computer, then use a simple trick to gain 
access to the old system. Details of this trick are in the link below.
The fourth option is by using 3rd party tools 
that will enable you to reset the lost password 
and logon with a blank password. Free Windows 
password-cracking tools are usually Linux boot 
disks that have NT file system (NTFS) drivers and 
software that will read the registry and rewrite 
the password hashes for any account including the 
Administrators. This process requires physical 
access to the console and an available floppy drive but it works like a charm!
For further information and access to the 
password-cracking tools, please visit: 
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
Note:
This TechTip is drawn from problem presented and 
discussed on the Uganda Linux User Group (LUG) 
mailing list, and adapted by the WOUGNET 
Technical Support Team. For more information 
contact techsupport@xxxxxxxxxxx or visit 
http://www.wougnet.org/Support/techtips.html


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WOUGNET News
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== GenARDIS: Knowledge-sharing on Gender, 
Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society
Partners and participants involved in the Gender 
and Agriculture in the Information Society 
(GenARDIS) Small Grants Fund met at Imperial 
Resort Beach Hotel, Entebbe, from 3-7 July 2006. 
For five days, over thirty people gathered to 
share and learn from each other?s experiences in 
implementing projects made possible through the 
fund. GenARDIS has supported innovative projects 
such as an agricultural information system to 
benefit women's groups in Benin, testing the use 
of mobile phones among farmers in Trinidad and 
Tobago, and in Burkina Faso developing ICT skills among rural women.
GenARDIS was initiated in 2002 to support work on 
gender-related issues in information and 
communication technologies (ICTs) for 
agricultural and rural development in the Africa, 
Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) region. It was 
developed in recognition of the constraints and 
challenges encountered by rural women in ACP 
countries with respect to ICTs, e.g. cultural and 
socio-economic factors that hinder women?s access 
and usage of ICTs including radios, mobile 
telephones and computers, limited time 
availability to participate in ICT training, and 
scarce relevant information in local languages.
GenARDIS partners are the Technical Centre for 
Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), 
International Research Development Centre (IDRC), 
Humanist Institute for Cooperation with 
Developing Countries (Hivos) and International 
Institute for Communication and Development 
(IICD). The Entebbe GenARDIS event was 
coordinated by the Association for Progressive 
Communications (APC) and Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET).
The GenARDIS workshop was held parallel with the 
African Regional Congress on Women and Science in 
Food and Nutrition Security, organised by the 
Regional Universities FORUM for Capacity Building 
in Agriculture. There was also a field trip to 
St. Jude's Integrated Agri-business Enterprise, 
Masaka District, a women-led enterprise promoting 
integrated organic farming in the community as 
well as training on the Gender Evaluation 
Methodology (GEM) tool which is a guide to 
integrating a gender analysis into evaluations of 
initiatives that use ICTs for social change.
For more information, contact Dorothy Okello, 
WOUGNET, genardis@xxxxxxxxxxx, 041-532035, or visit the GenARDIS websites:
http://www.apcwomen.org/genardis/
http://www.agricta.org/about/genardis.htm



== Kubere Information Centre participates in 
'ARENET Participatory Communication and 
Information Repackaging Workshop', Ngetta, Lira District
The United Nations Food and Agricultural 
Organisation (FAO) in collaboration with the 
National Agricultural Research Organisation 
(NARO) and the National Agricultural Advisory 
Services (NAADS) is implementing the Agricultural 
Research and Extension Network (ARENET) project 
to improve agricultural-related communication and 
information exchange in Uganda. One of the three 
pilot sites for this project is the Ngetta ARDC 
that caters for Lira and Apac districts in Northern Uganda.
In line with the participatory process for 
operationalisation of the project, FAO and the 
ARENET project organized a five day workshop from 
12th to 16th June 2006 for key partners in 
implementing the project within Lira and Apac 
districts.  Participants were welcomed to the 
workshop by the Station Manager of Ngetta ARDC 
who stressed the importance of information 
sharing in improving the agricultural 
productivity. The 15 participants at the workshop 
included representatives from NARO, NAADS, Local 
Government Agriculture and Information Offices, 
and NGOs active in the area of agriculture.
Based in Apac District, WOUGNET's Kubere 
Information Centre (KIC) was among the 
organisations invited to participate in this 
workshop as a stakeholder in agricultural 
development via access to agricultural 
information. Being an information centre with 
links to rural farmers and agricultural 
organisations, it is expected that the KIC will 
be a source for information gathering and 
dissemination within Apac District. The KIC was 
established with support from the Technical 
Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP 
EU (CTA) and operates under the Rural Access 
program of WOUGNET. Its main objective is to 
enhance access to agricultural information by 
rural women farmers using a variety of 
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
For more information about the KIC or the ARENET 
project, please contact Janet Achora, WOUGNET 
Program Officer - Rural Access, at kicinfo@xxxxxxxxxxx


== UGANDA GRACE Project: Study on CD-ROM 'Rural 
Women in Africa: Ideas for Earning Money'
The Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for 
Empowerment (GRACE) project aims to explore the 
ways in which women in Africa use ICTs to empower 
themselves, the external, structural barriers as 
well as the internal factors which prevent them 
from using ICTs to their advantage, and the 
strategies they employ to overcome these 
impediments. The project comprises 15 
sub-projects, reflecting 14 research sites in 12 
countries and one meta research sub project. 
WOUGNET is one of the organisations participating 
in the GRACE project, and the research project is 
?Uptake and Impact of the CD-ROM 'Rural Women in 
Africa: Ideas for Earning Money' on Grassroots 
Women Entrepreneurs in Uganda?. The goal is to 
assess the uptake and impact of the CD-ROM on 
rural women entrepreneurs in Uganda. There is 
also need to gain a clear understanding of the 
implications for appropriate ICTs for rural 
entrepreneurship, accounting for gender concerns. 
It is expected that participation in this project 
and the research findings should help drive 
WOUGNET?s mission to promote and support the use 
of ICTs among women and women organisations in Uganda.
For more information, visit 
http://uganda-wougnet.livejournal.com/ or send 
email to graceresearch@xxxxxxxxxxxx For links to 
other GRACE projects within Africa, visit 
http://community.livejournal.com/graceafrica


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