1. by Karamagi Akiiki Ednah General Manager, BROSDI
ENHANCING KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN THE RURAL COMMUNITY THROUGH ADOPTION OF WEB 2.0 TOOLS by
Karamagi Akiiki Ednah
General Manager, BROSDI

2. Brief About BROSDI Key Goal Areas Intervention
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
Presentation made by Karamagi Akiiki Ednah at Web 2.0 Conference under the sponsorship of CTA

3. Web 2.0 Tools used Information websites Google map Blogs Wiki SMS
Google map
Blogs
Wiki
SMS
Podcasts
Discussion groups
Flick R
Chat Rooms (Skype & Yahoo)
E Learning Tool for the Primary School Children
Presentation made by Karamagi Akiiki Ednah at Web 2.0 Conference under the sponsorship of CTA

4. Advantages & Challenges
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
Presentation made by Karamagi Akiiki Ednah at Web 2.0 Conference under the sponsorship of CTA

5. Evelyn put to task BROSDI team to link farmers network
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
Presentation made by Karamagi Akiiki Ednah at Web 2.0 Conference under the sponsorship of CTA

6. Some pictorial
Farmers pose for a photo outside Players to enable them capture local content discussed during their monthly district knowledge sharing forums
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
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
Presentation made by Karamagi Akiiki Ednah at Web 2.0 Conference under the sponsorship of CTA

7. Thank you to: - All present All Organizers CTA
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Thank you to: -
All present
All Organizers
CTA