TELECENTRE FOR BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL PARK.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park has put up a telecentre, which is being used to collect conservation information on local gorillas for communication in protected areas. This is aimed at enhancing communication for tourists going to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and the surrounding communities and also to improve on the communication systems in the area.
As told to the general manager African travel Emporium, the telecentre is also to enable the daily monitoring of the Gorillas through compiling data on clinical signs and sending information to Uganda wildlife authority using the newly introduced afromontane forest model.
The telecenter offers voice telephony via satellite communication, basic computer training, high-speed wireless Internet access and public health awareness campaigns. This is aimed at improving health care to animals and people in and around protected area, to compliment wildlife conservation and biodiversity.
The telecentre has been put up with a vision to replicate the model in other national parks in Uganda later in Africa, generate revenue, create a wider market, eradicate illiteracy, provide employment opportunities and to prevent and control disease transmission, promoting wildlife and local public health. It is a successful, sustainable model strategy started by local people and it has the potential to spread out and benefit the local communities, tourists, and institutions.