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The project has reduced the digital breach that exists in the country qualifying in the use of the computer, internet ( blogs, social nets, web pages, virtual communities) of 1500 people.

2000 people trained on topics about: 1) human, sexual and reproductive, indigenous rights, 2) democracy and citizenship, 3) negotiation and social control.

Young men and women and adults have a better capacity of participation in the society and the state.

Young men and women are qualified to be the promoters in ̈formation of democracy ̈, they will reproduce their knowledge and promote to other young people in their communities.

At least 50 university students have been trained on topics of local development, social control and human rights in coordination with the universities of El Alto, La Paz , Sucre and Santa Cruz.

At least 50 indigenous representatives have been trained on topics about indigenous rights.

• Create awareness, educate and inspire Tanzanians to collectively tackle corruption, selfishness and laziness
• Carry out the Chanjo campaign in all of Tanzania
• Distribution of Chanjo music and material over the Internet and mobile phones
• On-line platforms for debate and documentation
• Make more people aware of the scope of the corruption crisis
• Long term: to reduce corruption in society

1. use study circles and participatory adult education to educate and empower youth, adapting the curricula to the needs of youth
2. expand and sustain access to ICTs through training and development of locally sustainable ICT resource center plans
3. develop eLearning and social networking applications that reinforce learning in the youth and use of ICTs as part of their daily lives and
4. to deliver learning topics and tools relevant to youth and that will help them build individual and social resilience by improving livelihood opportunities.

• To achieve and maintain excellence in the Health Informatics education
• To provide community oriented, inquiry driven Health Care education.
• To initiate and sustain health science research
• To develop public private partnership in health care 

• Design and implement an information system to support supply chain management in the dairy value chain. Using open source will support access via Web and SMS or GPRS and espouse concepts gleaned from working with various partners in the dairy value chain.
• Pilot the resulting solution with two dairy farmer groups, during which time the team will document any lessons learned which could feed into further phases of the project.

1. By December 31, 2011 House of Culture shall have an equipped multi-media centre and the recording studio.
2. By December 31, 2011 children, youth, cultural professionals/practitioners and visually impaired are familiar with ICT and multi-media technology and use it for communication, learning and cultural production.
3. By December 31, 2012 the House of Culture shall be a preferred public space for debate, dialogue, sharing and accessing information on living cultures and cultural resources and production of cultural industries.
4. By December 31, 2012 the Museum and House of Culture facilities known and accessible to a wider public.
5. By June 30, 2012 Museum and House of Culture shall have developed an efficient and reliable open education resource centre.

To use the mobile phone and radio to fight corruption and promote social accountability aimed at improving health service delivery in Northern Uganda.

Objectives

• To reduce the rates on absenteeism of health workers
• To increase participation of communities in monitoring functionality of health centers
• Advocate for policies to improve health service delivery Goal:
  Local community based organisations and particularly their youth membership to have improved understanding of commitment to building a human rights state and society

Local community based organisations and particularly their youth membership to have improved understanding of commitment to building a human rights state and society.

Objectives

• To engage citizens in dialogue and establishing the rule of law in the context of democratic governance to ensure a decline in human rights violations
• To increase government accountability through monitoring service delivery at county level in the devolved government

The project aims to identify, describe and produce an analysis of the conditions that can promote the use of mobile phones for increased citizen participation and successful delivery of government services in Kenya.

Objectives

• Identify areas of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with government services in order to define a clear role for mobiles in delivery of government services.
• Identify where in government citizen feedback and participation is desired but March 16, 2011 Version 1.1 (2010-08-23) currently lacking.
• Prioritize current mobile applications for democratizing information based on feasibility of use by government ministries.
• Gather Kenyan Ministries’ opinions on using mobile phones for citizen feedback and service delivery.
• Select applicable lessons learned by Ushahidi, a Nairobi-based non-profit tech company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. Suggested main activities (in relation to goal and objectives) and expected results (i.e. “How will you make the situation better?”) This research uses qualitative and quantitative surveys to explore the feasibility of a mobile platform for increasing interaction between Kenyan government agencies and citizens. The iHub Research Team will conduct face-to-face interviews with government officials from the Ministry of Health, Agriculture, Water, and Education in order to understand the real potential for m-governance in these agencies.

• Increased capacity of grass-root population to demand better services from their leadership especially women through their Community Based Organizations.
• Secondly will be exposed cases of corruption and embezzlement within districts.

Goals

• Empower local people and communities to monitor district service delivery through ICTs. Specific objectives 
• To create awareness on the need to have good governance and service delivery among the grass-root communities and local Community Based Organizations(CBOs) in the five districts
• To build capacity in ICT skills among the communities and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to enable them collect, package and disseminate information on corruption and poor public service delivery from their localities to the wider public.
• To document and disseminate voices of the grass-root communities so as to raise awareness on corruption and poor service delivery in 5 districts of Uganda so that the public can generate debate and cause change.