KISINGA COMMUNITY DEMAND MORE INFORMATION FROM THE RIC-NET STALL

As the staff of RIC-NET attended to the farmers during the market information symposium held on 23^rd-25^th May 2012 in kisinga sub-county, kasese District over  110 community members visited the Rwenzori Information Centres Network (RIC-NET) stall  to acquire various information including the citizens manifesto booklet which local leaders demanded highly saying they had heard about but had no copy,

other visitors were pupils of kisinga and kagando primary schools, farmers  who were interested in management of local chicken, fish farming, Civil society organizations who accessed   the RIC-NET/ RWECO Newsletters, most important RIC-NET noted the community information needs like  articles on apple growing, plant clinics, non communicable diseases  RIC-NET calendars, preparing land for tree nursery which were not provided at that time  as the  copies were finished   but  promised to  source, repackage and  send the required  information to the   interested members through the information centers

                                 

 as Bwera Information centre and Busongora Rural information centre.

While inspecting the stalls, the vice chairperson Kasese District Mr. Tadeo Muhindo Matwese, appreciated the work of RIC-NET in setting up and maintaining the E-society centre in the District that has strengthened information sharing between the Local government and the citizens as well as giving the community an opportunity to use modern ICT tools.