The project shall entail women entrepreneurs who are already engaged in production and service delivery thus have marketable products through using their mobile phones (internet enabled) to market. promote,share views and notify others about their products. The project is not targeting only those women who are well versed with using the internet but also those that are not through training
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Kira Town Council of Wakiso district in uganda
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
To have the participants know how useful their phones are in helping them access a wider audience even without a computer. Through this the participants shall learn how to create their own marketing campaigns and send them to the relevant destinations. Through the digital photography we shall be using, women will provide evidence about the availability of their products and services
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
We plan to engage one of the most reliable telecom companies to help us with the setting, through this we shall make sure that all the participants can access that network thus have a consistent mode of operation, payments and any other technicalities involved.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
We look to up to 300 participants. The advantage is that all these participants are already members so mobilization shall be easy. We shall introduce the project and they will surely take it on.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
We would wish to know if Rising Voices has had similar operations else where in the world so we could learn from them, by this we need publications or information about how they engaged their projects and their success factors.
Organization
Community Women's Enterprise Network
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