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Record W2791493186

Women of Uganda Network

2002· other· en· W2791493186 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) · 2002
Typeother
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicICT in Developing Communities
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOutreachPublic relationsThe InternetDisseminationBusinessGovernment (linguistics)Internet accessPovertyAction planInformation DisseminationModernization theoryEconomic growthPolitical scienceWorld Wide WebComputer scienceManagement
DOInot available

Abstract

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At present, WOUGNET operates online, so that most members are based in Kampala where it is relatively easy to gain Internet access. For members in rural areas who lack Internet access, WOUGNET puts them in contact with women who do have access and are willing to serve as ´information conduits´. \n\nWOUGNET´s programmes and activities include:\n\na mailing list via which women and women´s organisations can exchange and disseminate information; \na website profiling women´s organisations and their activities. \na monthly Update Newsletter highlighting the activities of women´s organisations throughout Uganda;\na ´TechTips´ programme to address members´ queries related to computers or IT; and\na website design programme.\nFeedback from members reveals that the information shared and exchanged has benefited their projects and/or research programmes. In achieving its goals, however, WOUGNET faces a number of challenges:\n\nincreasing its outreach to women living outside Kampala;\nobtaining information (content) that is relevant to members´ needs;\nraising awareness about the potential of ICTs as effective tools for information exchange and dissemination;\nproviding hands-on demonstrations and training in the use of ICTs;\noffering opportunities for members to meet face-to-face in addition to online networking; and \nimproving its own institutional capacity to support its programmes.\nThe Ugandan government recognizes that timely and relevant information will contribute to national development plans such as the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) and the Plan for the Modernization of Agriculture (PMA). However, the bulk of Uganda´s communications infrastructure is restricted to urban areas, and is accessible to only a small proportion of the population. WOUGNET therefore aims to enable rural women to access information on food production and disease prevention, and to encourage them to participate in local initiatives.\n\nWOUGNET members have launched several programmes to improve information access for rural women, either directly or via intermediaries. For example,\n\nWomen´s groups of the ALFA Ministries are working in partnership with six organisations in Mpigi District to promote rural community development projects focusing on improving the lives of women. ALFA Ministries runs a rural information centre, which uses a mobile phone to access the net. \nThe Women´s Information Resource Electronic Service (WIRES) of the Council for the Economic Empowerment of Women in Africa is a web-based resource centre providing business information for women. WIRES aims to sensitize rural women about ICTs using community leaders and individuals who are knowledgeable about ICTs as role models. WIRES advertises its services using posters and mobile video shows, and offers ICT demonstrations and training sessions.\nNakaseke Women´s Development Association (NAWODA) runs a multipurpose community telecentre that includes a library, computers and audio-visual equipment. Its members share ideas for earning money, and information on diseases and treatment. Its members are pioneer users of the CD-ROM ´Rural Women in Africa: Ideas for Earning Money´, which was designed to be accessible to users with limited reading skills, and is available in the local language (Luganda) and in English. \nRadio Apac, a community radio station, broadcasts programmes for women on peace and conflict, good farming practices, HIV/AIDS, etc. \nIn support of its activities, WOUGNET has launched a pilot programme to make available WorldSpace satellite radio equipment to members. It recently hosted an online conference on ´Information Access for Rural Women´ to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences. WOUGNET is a key online source of information about NAWODA, and obtained a copy of the English version of the CD-ROM for use by Radio Apac´s women´s desk. A Luo version of the CD-ROM will soon be available.\nWOUGNET is committed to sharing experiences and lessons learned with stakeholders in rural development and women´s empowerment. For further information, visit WOUGNET´s website at www.wougnet.org.\n\nAbout the author:\nDorothy K. Okello (dokello@wougnet.org) is the WOUGNET´s fouding coordinator. At present, she is completing her PhD study at the Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP) Laboratory of the McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Open science
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.044
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0060.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.069
GPT teacher head0.335
Teacher spread0.266 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it