SECTOR 2 Bukedde, a sister paper of The New Vision. In addition, there are weekly papers: The East African, The Weekly Message, The East African Business Week, The Sunrise, Etop, Orumuri, Rupiny, The Independent, and two others affiliated with the Buganda Kingdom – Ggwanga (meaning ‘nation’), and Eddoboozi (meaning ‘the voice’). The Weekly Observer went biweekly to become, simply, The Observer. There are two other occasional papers: The Movement Times and The Onion. A copy of a daily costs Shs1,200 - in a country where 31 per cent of the people live on less than a dollar (Shs2,100) a day. “To buy a paper is a sacrifice”. People in the rural areas are not really interested in print media because their main issues of coverage, which revolve around happenings in the capital Kampala, are not seen as affecting them. They prefer their (local) FM station. “To buy a paper is a sacrifice”. Internet is increasingly more available and prices are coming down. For Shs1,000 one gets 30 minutes in an Internet café compared to 10 minutes in 2007. And more people are using the Internet. As of June 2009, according to the Communications Commission review, there were 12 Internet and data service providers in Uganda. There were 27,590 Internet subscriptions, with the estimated number of users standing at 2.8 million (9 per cent of the population) in 2009 compared to 15,500 subscriptions and an estimated 1 million users in 2007. There is shared usage at work places, education institutions, and public cafes. Accessibility of information is, however, also dependent upon access to electricity with only 10 per cent of Ugandans being connected to the national electricity grid. There are disparities based on wealth as well – the richer (and there are not so many) enjoy a much wider range of sources of information. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator. 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 2.3 (2007: 2.6) AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER UGANDA 2010 33