The Deputy District Chief
Administrative Officer, Mr. Oketayot C.
James assured a team of Civil Society Onrganisation under CEW-IT
consortium, that the District is willing to embrace the e-society platforms for
social accountability.
James, stated that as long as the
platform assures verification of the content uploaded, its a good contributions
to enabling receiving feedback on service delivery from the citizens to whom
the District serves.
This was supported by the District
Chief Finance Officer (CFO) Mr. Segawa Godfrey who asked the CSOs to raise
awereness about the project from not only the civil servants but the Political
leaders and the Citizens who own the District. He preferred that this
sensitization should be in local languages and embracing all the media
channels.
The CFO asked the District
Information officer (DIO) Ms Nakibuuka Stellah to prioritize the e-society
components costs such as contribution to website hosting, e-library in her
department budget when the CSO contribution ends in December 2014.
On their part, CSO representative
led by Ms Rose Nanyonjo from FRHI and Mr. John Silco from RIC-NET assured the
District civil servants leaders that their orgaisation commit to develop a
dynamic website, e-library, a bulk sms platform, a citizens voice (feedback)
platform and support training of the District staff to maintain these
platforms. The domain name registrations and hosting charges for all theses
platforms will be met by the CSO with support from HIVOS and EU for 24 months.
The CSO asked the District to request for the originally Domain name www.luwero.go.ug from UCC so as the district
identify is continued. At this point a question was asked about the linkage
between this project and e-government initiative of the government to which CSO
members said that he two projects are complimentary.
Members of the CSO fraternity
assured the District that this is part of the project that is enhancing Social
Accountability in 25 Districts of the 5 regions in Uganda. The informed meeting
that its regional implemented by RWECO, FHRI, ACORD, PAC Uganda and CEFORD in
Rwenzori, Central, Teso, Acholi and West Nile regions respectively. All these
effort are coordinated by CEW-IT (Citizens Election Watch –IT ) and RIC-NET is
the ICT partner of all the consortium members.
The DCAO ended the roundtable discussion
appreciating the efforts of CSO towards the District on Social accountability
and promised the District leaders will sign the MOU with FHRI when properly
printed as the
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