Caribbean schoolchildren are set to benefit from Commonwealth and Microsoft collaboration. Commonwealth Secretariat, Commonwealth of Learning and Microsoft Trinidad and Tobago have jointly agree to improve access to, and use of, Information and Communication Technologies
The seventh Partnership Platform meeting of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP- PP) has ended in Yaoundé, Cameroon with a call on AU member states to work towards the realization of the CAADP goals. Under the theme: “Mutual Accountability in the Formulation and Implementation of country CAADP Investment Plans”, the Sharing-Learning Session focused on: […]
The Lions Club of Uganda has offered free treatment to patients of sight related diseases in Masaka district and the surrounding areas. While launching the treatment at Masaka referral hospital the Club’s governor for Uganda and Tanzania Wilson Tumwiine said the program will cost 200 million shillings. Tumwine says they have found many cases of […]
Gmail users in Uganda now have the opportunity of sending free chat messages to mobile phones of people they want to communicate with and get back a reply, right in their Gmail chat interface, Online Technology giants Google on Tuesday announced the Gmail-to-SMS which will allow allows Gmail users in the country to send and […]
After years, in fact decades of operations against HIV/AIDS, where have we reached and what have we learned in efforts to prevent infection and curtail the impacts of HIV/AIDS on our communities? Gerald Businge writes that about the successes and challenges in Uganda and the need for fresh thinking in face of a growing HIV positive population and stagnant infection rates.
A Report from the Ministry of Health indicates that lose of government medicine to the fraudulent health workers is on increase. While addressing a press conference in Kampala Dr. Diana Atwine, the head of the recently Medicines and Health Service Delivery Monitoring Unit said several health officials across the country are being investigated over medicine […]
Uganda Telecom has said it does not owe MTN Uganda the 20 billion shillings that MTN Uganda claimed has caused it to consider terminating interconnection calls with UTL. Uganda Telecom today issued a statement saying they have paid all interconnection fees due to MTN in November 2010 and January 2011. “There is however […]
The Minister of Education and Sports, Namirembe Bitamazire has appealed for all stakeholders to improve learning of science subjects at all levels of education. Bitamazire says the doing and passing of science subjects by many students is critical for the development of the country as science spurs development. She was speaking Wednesday as […]
The World Summit Award is a global initiative to select and promote the world’s best digital contents, held every two years. The national pre-selection in UGANDA is done through direct nomination by the national expert or through a competition or combination of both. Focal point to suggests projects to is Daniel Stern, Hive Colab, who […]
The health situation of people living with HIV/AIDS in Kalangala district is alarming as 8 people in one Sub County of Bujumba have died in the past three weeks due to inaccessibility of anti-retroviral drugs in the district. The Chairman LC5 Daniel Kikola says that the situation has gone out of hand when the NGO […]