Guys I have a very strong belief that the reporter made a mistake here. To the best of my knowledge, the project that Balidawa is working on to design district websites lies under UCC and World Bank gives the Money to UCC not the districts directly. So unless otherwise I have reason to believe that the US$ 56m must have been given to UCC and Kiboga was used as a case study for the launch and PR that the donor needed.
I have seen numerous situations where journalists are misrepresenting ICT news and unfortunately, no effort is made to correct the mistakes. A New Vision journalist once referred to KiloBytes as RamBytes and in her entire article on bandwidth, she consistently used the term rambytes. Wire > I am sure that will remain a pipe dream. I am looking forward to see > how they will account for most of these funds ... guess it will go > into seminars and meetings and mobilisation > > On 7/4/05, Ronny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Power has been there since 1978 when I was born in Kiboga Hospital .We >> have >> the best Highway in Uganda with No accidents since 2000 I hear.Now we >> got >> the best Telecom in the making :-) >> Ronny >> >> Kiggundu Mukasa wrote: >> >> >> >> As far as I can see (from the website) Kiboga is counted among the 98% >> of >> Uganda's population who DON"T have electricity! >> Anyone on the list from Kiboga who can confirm or deny the availability >> of >> power? >> >> >> Kiggs >> >> >> >> On Jul 4, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: >> >> >> On Monday 04 July 2005 06:35, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote: >> >> >> From the desk of Russel Southwood >> >> >> >> >> * WORLD BANK GIVES $56M FOR KIBOGA WEBSITE >> >> >> Kiboga district will go online following a $56m >> (sh98b) >> >> >> >> The website will cost more than the web server and >> bandwidth it's sitting on? Interesting... >> >> >> Mark. >> >> >> >> >> >> **************** ***************************** >> Kiggundu Mukasa # Computer Network Consultancy### >> KYM-NET LTD. # Intranets & Internet Solutions# >> Plot 80 Kanjokya Street >> P.O. Box 24284 Kampala, Uganda >> Tel: +256 77 972255 >> +256 71 221141 >> Fax: +256 31 262122 >> ***************************************************************** >> ________________________________ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >> %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> *************************************************************************** >> / ''We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are''\ >> \ ,, ,,/ >> *************************************************************************** >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >> %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >> >> >> > > > -- > JFL > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
