Dear GKD Members, After consuming all the enormous amount of information on this List, I am now convinced that given the live examples I have discovered, ICTs for LGs could bail out the rural area I come from.
I hail from a remote County that is currently seeking to be elevated to district status in Eastern Uganda. The problem in this place is that there are very few, if any, facilities save for buildings to house district headquarters. The roads are really very bad, and health facilities are very basic, though there is one big hospital and a few dilapidated health centers, clean drinking water is rare. The population is growing very fast and yet more than 90% of it is grouped among the poorest in the country. There are great chances that the area will be given district status, at least from the gestures and words of President Museveni. The place that is being fronted as a district headquarters has an erratic connection to the national electricity grid (Hydro-powered). Though it is in the center of the proposed district, it is believed that if good hands are not deployed to manage the offices, it will be run down. Given the information I have read here, can anyone volunteer information on how one can help a start-up district and township to develop fast using ICTs. If possible, an entire program. In general, the new district, if granted, will have an urban center that will need an ICT4D program. I can see a few examples on this List, but if there is anyone out there with a detailed project that has seen a new district start from scratch, using ICT4D, possibly this new district's LG could emulate such examples. Hope to hear from all of you soon. Davis Weddi ------------ This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by the dot-ORG USAID Cooperative Agreement, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org provides more information. To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd For past messages, see: http://www.dot-com-alliance.org/archive.html
