Connect Uganda
Maendeleo Foundation reaches out to communities and schools with up to date computer skills and information access.
A propos de vous
A propos de vous
Prénom
Asia
Nom
Kamukama
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A propos de votre organisation
Nom
Maendeleo Foundation
Site Web
Pays
Uganda, Mukono
Pays dans lesquels ce projet crée un impact social
Uganda, Mukono
Votre organisation est-elle une
organisation à but non lucratif
Depuis combien de temps votre organisation opère-t-elle ?
1‐5 années
Votre organisation a-t-elle reçu des récompenses ou des prix ? Si oui, indiquez-nous lesquels.
A grant was awarded by Electronic Information For Libraries (EIFL) in 2012 for a pilot of the Connect Uganda Project.
In 2009, Maendeleo Foundation won Intel’s “Inspire-Empower Challenge,” in the category of education.
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Innovation
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Connect Uganda
Sélectionnez la phase qui s'applique le mieux à votre solution
Création (un pilote qui vient juste de démarrer)
Depuis combien de temps le projet existe-t-il ?
En place depuis 1 à 5 ans
Le besoin : quel problème tentez-vous de résoudre ?
In Uganda, the electrical power grid reaches only a small percentage of the population (5%-10%), mostly in urban areas. Rolling blackouts, poor maintenance of the grid, lack of infrastructure, and high prices make this source of electricity unreliable.
Sitting on the equator, Uganda is ideal for efficient use of solar power.
New low power netbooks provide the possibility of inexpensive solar computer installations. Lately internet accessibility has grown to allow access in nearly all areas of the country.
Most of Uganda’s population live in rural areas and are involved in agriculture but lack relevant information to help them improve on their practice and lack markets as they have no way of accessing market information.
La solution: quelle solution proposez-vous ? Soyez précis !
Through Connect Uganda Project we are reaching out to hard to reach rural communities with relevant information through powering each partner library with 3 Classmate PCs,an internet router and a solar system.In addittion to this,we have developed a database with information localized to meet the information needs of the local community.
Le système : décrivez un exemple spécifique montrant de quelle façon votre initiative fonctionne ; indiquez vos principales activités.
Training farmers and girls in computer skills will enable them to access relevant data in local languages and the ability of community users to communicate with others in their field will help improve community development, local economic development.
Networking workshops will enable us link the various women farmers groups we work with to organizations and people that can provides services to them.
Le marché : qui sont vos collègues et vos concurrents ? Identifiez les autres personnes qui travaillent à répondre au même besoin et indiquez ce qui vous différencie d'elles. Comment ces concurrents pourraient-ils influencer votre réussite ou votre croissance ?
While there are several organizations aimed at helping farmers by showing them modern farming techniques, they are based in urban areas and reach very few of their target audience.
Working with community libraries located in rural areas enables us to directly serve the people in need and disseminate such information to all in their area using local language data from our server.
Impact social
This Entry is about (Issues)
Quelle(s) solution(s) votre projet propose-t-il pour améliorer la vie des femmes et des jeunes filles en recourant aux technologies ? (plusieurs réponses possibles)
Accès à la technologie, Accès à l'éducation/la formation, Accès aux opportunités économiques.
Jusqu'à ce jour, quels résultats a obtenu votre projet ?
We have just started the pilot project and therefore have not yet measured the impacts.
Quelles sont vos prévisions en termes d'impact au cours des trois prochaines années?
Through our project,over 90 community libraries in Uganda will be powered with computers and internet access to serve local information needs.
More so through linkages with service providers,over 100 farmers groups will be able to move from subsistence farming to commercial farming.
At the moment,there's no public agricultural database in Uganda and through our project we will be able to avail the public with a fully built agricultural database.
Les meilleures propositions possèdent un programme solide détaillant leurs prévisions pour atteindre et suivre leurs objectifs de croissance. Identifiez vos objectifs à 6 mois pour accroître vos résultats
Définissez les trois tâches principales à accomplir pour atteindre ces objectifs à six mois
Tâche 1
Communication and information skills training to librarians and library information officers
Tâche 2
Translation of data into local languages
Tâche 3
Soliciting for partners that can work with the rural farmers by providing services to them
Et maintenant, voyez les choses en plus grand ! Identifiez vos objectifs à 12 mois
Définissez les trois tâches principales à accomplir pour atteindre vos objectifs à 12 mois
Tâche 1
Update the database regulary
Tâche 2
Source for agricultural information
Tâche 3
Training of farmers on how to use information after they have trecieved it
Création de l'organisation : nous voulons tout savoir sur votre déclic. Expliquez-nous oú et quand les fondateurs se sont rendu compte que cette solution possédait un véritable potentiel pour changer le monde.
It was during our Library Tour Project where we visited over 15 community libraries in different districts in Uganda with our Mobile Solar Computer Classroom.After having given an introduction and basic computer training to an average of 500 people in each location we realized that those we trained did not have the ability to use the skills they’ve learned. And during our training session that included a brief introduction to the internet we noticed that most people were looking for information about pest control and markets and we received so many people who needed help with thier crops and healthy problems.Being no experts in either field we realized that we could use the internet and our database to provide information and link communities to various services.
Viabilité
Quels sont vos différents partenariats ?
The project is currently run in partnership with Uganda Community Libraries Association which provides us with libraries and librarians to assit with the project.
We also work with Makerere Center for Lifelong Learning who provide the team off researchers and translators.
Since we aim at linking farmers to service providers,we are also working on partnerships with NGOs and Companies that work in the field of agriculture.
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