CEWIT held its first media and press release which was code name "okwanjula" meaning Introduction by the National Coordinator Mr James Mwirima. Members of CEWIT present where the Chair Person Mr John Silco, The National Cordinator Mr James Mwirima, The IT Personal Mr Emmanuel Oluka and The Account Mr John Sanza.
The media houses present where UBC radio and TV which ran the press release as a new article of on its Saturday evening news, Also present was Star FM, NBS, Sanyu FM, Bunyoro TV, Bukedde FM and Radio Kagadi. In the press release, CEWIT introduced its partner members of RWECO from Western Uganda, CEFORD from Arua, ACORD from Northern Uganda and PAC from Teso. Apparently CEWIT is present in the 22 districts of Uganda and is funded by Hivos and Oxfam Novib. Also, among CEWIT partners are CCEDU and Dem Group.
In the press release, the use of IT for collecting news reports was emphasized in which there is an MOU between CEWIT and Dem group in the use of 6090 as the official short code. Messages from 6090 will be posted on www.ugandawatch2011.org which is a Dem group platform and also on www.uchaguzi.co.ug which is a Ushahidi platform under CEWIT. However, based on the MOU between the 2 organisations, www.uchaguzi.co.ug will be password protected until March 15th. However, during this time, the messages sent to www.uchaguzi.co.ug will be shown on www.ugandawatch2011.org as RSS feeds.
The next press release will be this coming Friday which will highlight a summary of incidents that have been reported to the platforms since CEWIT genesis
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