Funny, it seems nobody went to wikipedia yet and noticed how well the
districts are documented already. A Ugandan gentleman is spending a lot of
time doing this.
He is now working on the counties already
Districts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Uganda
Counties:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Uganda
And for those who like to get their hands dirty with code, did you know you
can query Wikipedia using SPARQL?
Here is a video made by Linn Clark, that shows how to query the CIA factbook
using Drupal & SPARQL. Wikipedia is queriable in a very similar way. Its
pretty amazing to watch
http://lin-clark.com/blog/more-fun-cia-data-sparql-views-relationships-and-
contextual-filters
On Friday 28 September 2012 14:20:58 [email protected] wrote:
Again, Wikipedia needs information which can be verified in published sources.
You can't just stick anything in there, even if it happens to be true.
Also, district web pages should fall under national infrastructure, which
ought to be funded by the government, right? Even if not, surely ten dozen
districts could pitch in for the cost of *one* domain with *one* web hosting
package?
Kyle Spencer <[email protected]> wrote:
Why do we need to spend money on this? What would the sites be used for? Why
is a Wikipedia page not capable of serving the same purposes?
On Sep 28, 2012 3:03 PM, "Edmonds Namasenda" <[email protected]> wrote:
Sadly but true.
However, someone or some organization has to set standards on what information
must be on each district website / portal eg schools, health centres, road
network et la and relevant contacts at each where necessary.
So often most of them spring up and fade off fast mostly because the
information is never updated. Why sell me that-overly-eating-animal when I
can't afford a meal?!
As a way forward, IMHO, one of our dear local ICT companies can entice a deal
to UCC or the concerned to manage the district portals with relevant
information (for obviously a particular period of time).
I know there might be sayings of "no funds planned". The enticer could offer
the service for free of charge for a year with documentation to pay for a
number of agreeable years from the next financial / fiscal year.
# Edz
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Ancel Bwire <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/635731-districts-don-t-have-websites.html
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