Spot on Richard,thanx for the initiative and innovativeness ------Original message------ From: Okuti Richard <[email protected]> To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, March 9, 2012 3:13:36 PM GMT+0300 Subject: [WestNileNet] Useful news and announcements
Dear all, I will soon be sending out periodic newsletters with selected stories that will keep us informed about various issue pertaining to development, business and entertainment in our region, information will be sourced from various people and places. This initiative will focus on catalyzing debate on various subjects and should they become interesting enough I will facilitate the meetings of minds to cause some activity and eventually solutions to the subjects (I will therefore continuously study the debates, create round table talks and encourage project formulation). The stories will include business, development work, projects and other associated sorts of information as in this one below; New business A team of entrepreneurs from Uganda have come together to initiative yet another new venture China Business Center! What can we benefit from trade relations with China? Potentially the biggest economy in the world! We can now assist you deal with China http://www.chinabusinesscenter.co.ug <http://www.chinabusinesscenter.co.ug/> by facilitating trade between Uganda and China feel free to go through the website and engage the company - I am one of the heads behind this initiative as explained here http://www.chinabusinesscenter.co.ug/index.php/about-us/our-people If you are interested in real estate or just want to buy/sell, rent/sublet a property here is also a new initiative that you can interact with http://www.onlinerealestate.co.ug/ as you may notice there are already properties from Arua listed. The most interesting part is we can also introduce and facilitate interaction between prime land owners and investors so that they can enter into joint ventures, isn't this beautiful? I am one of the heads here too. New Initiatives coming soon will be ICT for Agriculture ... Watch this space, this will focus on encouraging all actors on the Agricultural Value Chain to embrace ICT as a way of reducing costs of business as well as accessing more opportunities around the world. In the meantime look out for updates on the upcoming Global Cassava Partnership (GCP21-II) http://www.danforthcenter.org/gcP21-II/ Conference coming to Uganda - it will be hosted at The Commonwealth Resort Munyonyo June 18-22, 2012 and my role here is coordination of the organising committees of the conference. The Ugandan host is The National Crop Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI) in Namulonge. WNF activities general The West Nile Foundation & The Vision Group are currently engaged in discussing how they (The Group) may be useful in supporting West Nile Development initiatives. What is coming out clearly is that Education is the biggest concern and needs to be address squarely so as to bolster the other areas of development. Projects Science Cafe Science Care Arua has resumed and is expected to grow to greater heights during the course of the year, so tomorrow if you are in Arua and are interested this is an activity to support. Learn more about Science Cafe here http://www.sciencecafeuganda.org/. Science Cafe Kampala works are on the drawing board, you will soon see some post like "Coming to the Cinema near you ..." Associated Projects St. Joseph's College Ombaci will this month launch the first phase of the Solar Light up Ombaci project which was selflessly led by Charles Draecabo of an OB of Ombaci. The plan is to make this a success and replicate it to other schools. The college had earlier launched a tree planting project (Led by Godfrey Mundua an OB of Ombaci) as well, the lessons from that project will be shared at an appropriate date and replication can start. Both projects got good support from associated OB's especially from Mvara SSS, we encourage more collaborations and all interested are invited to this years St. Joseph's day celebrations & reunion at Ombaci on 24th of March 2012. Otherwise the annual activities will have updates soon. Let our Motto for West Nile Foundation this year be. Either - Lets walk the talk or - Lets stop lamenting and dive into action or - Time up, let's get smart.... Regards Richard _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list [email protected] http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). 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