Projects come and go, organisations continue. Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) has been working with women in the Apacdistrict of Northern Uganda since 2000. They have been involved in a variety of projects since then. Janet Achora, Senior Project Officer in WOUGNET describes in this video clip the impact of the work they did with the Open Knowleldge Network (OKN) on Local Content.

In summary, Janet describes how for OKN they began to ask the women for stories and information about their lives and ways of working, for other people to hear. At first the women were uneasy, saying 'why would anyone want to listen to us, the stupid ones' (meaning uneducated). The WOUGNET team encouraged the women to recognise the value of their knowledge about farrming, health and other aspects of their lives. They began contributing stories and in the process gained confidence in themselves and their abilities to communicate. As well as entering the information into the OKN system, the stories, ideas and questions were broadcast on the local Community Radio, Radio Apac, as part of the wider WOUGNET programme. This has continued to develop and some of the women are now comfortable talking directly on the Radio.

The UNECA led Africa Knowledge Network (AKN) has aims that in many ways pick up from where OKN left off. Janet is on the Steering Committee and she also describes how she would like to integrate Local Content into the AKN, seeing it as,"the engine that drives the portal". As the African Knowledge Netwoork she believes it is important it shows African content online.