ENHANCING KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN THE RURAL COMMUNITY THROUGH ADOPTION OF WEB 2.0 TOOLS

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ENHANCING KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN THE RURAL
COMMUNITY THROUGH ADOPTION OF WEB 2.0 TOOLS

• by
• Karamagi Akiiki Ednah
• General Manager, BROSDI

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Brief About BROSDI

• Key Goal
• Involvement of government civil society in
  facilitating the grassroots rural person improve
  their livelihood (source of income, health, food
  security, etc) through adopting a culture of
  Open Development Initiatives, Knowledge
  Sharing Information Management
• Use of Modern and traditional ICT Methods as
  enabling tools
• Areas Intervention
• Health
• Education
• Agriculture

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Web 2.0 Tools used

• Information websites
• www.celac.or.ug
• www.brosdi.or.ug
• Google map
• http//www.celac.or.ug/map.html
• Blogs
• www.celac.wordpress.com
• http//360.yahoo.com/hope_childrens_club
• Wiki
• http//brosdi.wetpaint.com
• SMS
• http//www.penguinlabs.co.ke/SMS
• Podcasts
• http//www.celac.or.ug/podcasts/player.html
• Discussion groups
• Flick R
• Chat Rooms (Skype Yahoo)
• E Learning Tool for the Primary School Children

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Advantages Challenges

• Advantages
• Knowledge is documented
• Enhanced community sharing
• Improved livelihoods
• Challenges
• Requires internet
• Internet is expensive
• Electricity is load scheduled in the whole
  country
• Differing peoples susceptibility to change
• Information hoarding

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Some Real Examples
Mrs Kambugu has diversified her production
Alice and her 3 kids have built a brick house
banana plantation
Cissy her turkeys
Mrs Muwanga her plantation
Edwin his natural fertilizers
CELAC Masaka District Farmers Network has a fridge
Evelyn put to task BROSDI team to link farmers
network with district team
Mulopi his cabbages kitchen garden
etc
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Some pictorial

• We keep in the background and let the community
  share the knowledge that they know on a
  particular topic. They we collect it and
  disseminate through out the 17 districts within
  which we work

Fred, a farmer from Sironko district illustrates
to other farmers CELAC Staff (both parties not
in picture) how to grow coffee locally. This was
during the July District Farmers Training held at
BROSDI Offices

Farmers pose for a photo outside Players to
enable them capture local content discussed
during their monthly district knowledge sharing
forums
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• Thank you to -
• All present
• All Organizers
• CTA