THE COMMUNICATIONS BLOG

MBALE– Only 27 years old and blind, Denis Komakech’s computer knowledge is admirable. Not surprisingly, Komakech has gained fame as an activist for ICTs, targeting persons with special needs. An employee of Oysters & Pearls, an educational programme that supports blind students in science, technology, engineering and maths, Komakech has…

More students from rural areas can now access reliable Internet services thanks to the intervention of Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), through the Rural Communication Development Fund (RCDF). This follows the Northern Uganda regional launch of the second phase of the school connectivity project under which academic institutions are supported with…

More than 250 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have attended a two-week digital literacy training program, which started on 15 July, 2019 and ends on 26 July, 2019. An initiative of the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) represented by the Rural Communication Development Fund (RCDF), in partnership with the Federation of…

Denis Komakech is a blind computer trainer. Komakech works with Oysters & Pearls, an educational programme inclusive of the blind with emphasis on teaching science, technology, engineering and math to students in Uganda. On Wednesday, July 17, Komakech was at work, briefing workshop participants on the range of assistive devices…

Canadian actress August Ames, real name Mercedes Grabowiski, took her life in 2017. It was widely believed that the backlash from her post on Twitter had driven the 23-year-old to hang herself. Her husband Kevin Moore said his wife had committed suicide one day after enduring an avalanche of online…

VANUATU – The Uganda Communications Commission is participating in the Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR) in Port Vila, Vanuatu represented by Mr Godfrey Mutabazi the Executive Director – UCC and Ms. Irene Kaggwa Sewankambo the Director Engineering and Communications Infrastructure at the Commission. Mr Mutabazi joins top regulators and policy…

RCDF III (2017/18–2021/22)  Broadband Connectivity and Access Rural Broadband Sites UCC in partnership with MTN Uganda under the Rural Communications Development Fund (RCDF) recently launched 22 3G base stations in the government bid to ensure broadband service coverage for the whole country with government taking the lead in the rural…