9 Feb 2010

The Sessional Committee of Parliament on ICT will be receiving and considering views on the the Cyber Bills, namely
i) The Electronic Signatures Bill, 2008
ii) The Computer Misuse Bill, 2008
iii) The Electronic Transactions Bill, 2008

If you have any written views on these bills please send them to " This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it " for compilation and presentation to the Committee.

Bills can be downloaded here

9 Feb 2010

Members on the I-Network list would like to know more about how MTN Mobile Money works. If you have used MTN Mobile money, share your experience here

08 Feb 2010

The Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment GRACE is a project that was initiated in 2005 with an aim to provide context specific data on how women in Africa use information communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives, barriers that prevent them from accessing and utilisation of ICTS and how they surmount these barriers. With support from the International Development Research Center (IDRC), GRACE evolved into an African network of Gender and ICT researchers involving 14 research teams in 12 different African countries including Uganda.

1 Feb 2010

Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) in partnership with SMS media launched a paid examinations results’ application that enables students access their results via SMS. It shall cost Uganda shillings to access results for a student and the service is available on MTN, Zain and UTL networks for now.

1 Feb 2010

The District Net project was implemented by the Ministry of Local Government to improve communications between the different government levels within a district: parish, sub county, and district headquarters in four different districts: Kayunga, Lira, Mbale and Mbarara.

A 10 minutes video is now available.