The Ministry of Education and sports (MoES) in conjunction with Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) and KAWA have organized a five days retooling workshop for secondary school teachers in the Eastern region scheduled to take place at Mbale Secondary School starting from 7th to 11th May 2018.
Two teachers from each of 107 schools in Busia, Tororo, Butaleja, Palisa, Budaka, Kibuku, Mbale, Bududa, Manafwa, Namisindwa, Sironko, Bulambuli, Kapchorwa, Kween, and Bukwa districts which received computers through UCC's Rural Communications Development Fund (RCDF), have been invited to attend the workshop. A sample of the invitation letter signed by the Permanent Secretary, of MoES Mr. Sam Kuloba is pictured below.
Similar workshops held in the past have been national and the venue has usually been at Kololo SSS, but this time UCC decided that they should start having regional retooling workshops since the RCDF is supposed to focus on rural areas.
About RCDF
The Rural Communications development Fund (RCDF) is a Universal Service Fund (USF) to communications in Uganda. It was established in 2003 and it is administered at arms' length by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC).
The projects implemented by RCDF include; Internet points of presence (POP) “ 76, Internet cafes “ 106, ICT training centres “ 78, Public payphones “ 4,099, District web portals “ 78, Multi Purpose Community Tele-centres (MCT) “ 13, Postal projects “ 45, School ICT laboratories “ 708, Health ICT facilities “ 174, Voice network sites “ 90, Content development projects “ 106, Local governance projects 2, and Other unique projects “ 31.
ICT Retooling workshops are meant to enhance the usage of these ICT facilities established through RCDF.
May 3, 2018 By Rogers Mukalele