Uganda

• Design and implement an information system to support supply chain management in the dairy value chain. Using open source will support access via Web and SMS or GPRS and espouse concepts gleaned from working with various partners in the dairy value chain.
• Pilot the resulting solution with two dairy farmer groups, during which time the team will document any lessons learned which could feed into further phases of the project.

To use the mobile phone and radio to fight corruption and promote social accountability aimed at improving health service delivery in Northern Uganda.

Objectives

• To reduce the rates on absenteeism of health workers
• To increase participation of communities in monitoring functionality of health centers
• Advocate for policies to improve health service delivery Goal:
  Local community based organisations and particularly their youth membership to have improved understanding of commitment to building a human rights state and society

• Increased capacity of grass-root population to demand better services from their leadership especially women through their Community Based Organizations.
• Secondly will be exposed cases of corruption and embezzlement within districts.

Goals

• Empower local people and communities to monitor district service delivery through ICTs. Specific objectives 
• To create awareness on the need to have good governance and service delivery among the grass-root communities and local Community Based Organizations(CBOs) in the five districts
• To build capacity in ICT skills among the communities and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to enable them collect, package and disseminate information on corruption and poor public service delivery from their localities to the wider public.
• To document and disseminate voices of the grass-root communities so as to raise awareness on corruption and poor service delivery in 5 districts of Uganda so that the public can generate debate and cause change.

Establish how ICT tools are being used to improve democracy monitoring and civic engagement in Uganda;

Understand the knowledge, attitudes, and the needs of citizen groups and local governments regarding the use of ICTs in citizen participation and monitoring of democracy;

Document the Critical Success Factors for eParticipation/eDemocracy/citizen engagement in the Ugandan context;

Map innovative and successful ways in which citizens, citizens’ groups and local governments can use ICTs to improve participation transparency, and accountability;

Examine how the current policies (and practices) enhance eDemocracy, and make recommendations on how government policies could be more supportive of the use of ICTs in governance and civic participation;

Promote awareness and develop capacity among citizens’ groups, local government, and the media, on how ICT tools can be used in monitoring democracy and enabling greater citizens’ engagement; and

Facilitate the development of a network of civil society organizations, media, citizens’ groups and local government that use and promote the use of ICTs in governance.

Train at least 60 IT professionals in RedHat Linux

• To develop, pilot and roll out applications (supported by SMS and GPRS) that transder the concepts of ICT for Developmetn and ICT for Poverty Reduction to practical reality for the rural communities in Uganda and elsewhere.
• To develop the necessary back-end linkage (data sources, and servers and linking to the telecom networks) that will be the source of the data.
•  To address other development information dissemination needs within the Ugandan economy that can be best served using the cellular platform.
•  To build capacity of students in the development of applications for human development and/or commercial exploitation; and consequently support the growth of the software industry in Uganda.
• To lead to a greater under insight into the process of effective technology transfer, with specific focus on ICT for Development, in countries like Uganda.

• Provide industrial training and professional work experience to students within the field of ICT
• Set up a self-sufficient and sustainable student run network to provide technical support to NGOs, not for profit organizations and academic institutions.
• Set up of a database and implement routines for the upkeep of this database that will provide the private sector, the government and other ICT actors in the Ugandan economy with up-to-date information about the usage and problem areas.