Third Lango Forum on e – Agriculture: Improving information access for agricultural and rural development

By maureen Submitted on 5 February, 2010 - 10:29
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The Women of Uganda Network with support from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation AC–EU (CTA), holds a bi-annual event called the Lango Forum on e-agriculture. This event is held twice times in a year in Apac District, Northern Uganda. This year the third Lango forum on e–agriculture will be held on the 18th of February, 2010 .
 
The Purpose

The purpose of the forum is to sensitise rural women and the community at large on the role of ICTs in rural and agricultural development. Forum participants share knowledge and experiences on how ICTs have been or could be applied in agriculture and rural development within the region, highlighting both the benefits and the challenges. Participants include farmers, district leaders, civil society organisations from Apac, Gulu, Lira, and Oyam districts, and stakeholders from other areas of Uganda.
 
Why Apac District?

WOUGNET has initiated various ICT initiatives including research work in Apac District since 2003. The most significant initiative was started in 2005, and this particular project works directly with rural women farmers. The project, which is in its fifth year and supported by CTA, is called Enhancing Access to Agricultural Information using ICTs to Rural Women Farmers.

The project also established a rural information centre called Kubere Information Centre, located in Apac town. Other significant ICT processes in Northern Uganda that WOUGNET has been involved in, include the Agricultural Research Extension Network - ARENET project that was implemented by FAO and Kawanda Agricultural Research Information Services, the Rural Women’s Voices Project, the e-Society Programme and the Knowledge Network of African Community Telecentres - KNACT, among others.

About WOUGNET

Women of Uganda Network is a non-governmental organization established in 2000 by several women's organisations in Uganda to develop the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among women as tools to share information and address challenges collectively. It is wupported by CTA, HIVOS, and Dimitra.

WOUGNET’s mission is to promote and support the use of information and communication technologies by women's organisations as well as individuals. This is done with the aim of improving the conditions of life for Ugandan women through enhancing their capacities and opportunities for exchange, collaboration and information-sharing using ICTs.  WOUGNET’s information channels include its websites: www.wougnet.org, http://kic.wougnet.org/, and www.wib.or.ug as well as mailing lists, print publications and the Kubere Information Centre (KIC) located in Apac district, Northern Uganda.