ICT is hardly used in Uganda to develop distance education and this despite political goodwill, the positive experiences reflected in some of the showcases and the limited but available infrastructure. Key enabling factors have been identified:government commitment, planning, availability of resources, technology,private sector partnership and commitment. The major challenges:lack of adequate resources, standards, a negative attitude and the lack of an ICT policy to guide implementations. A central element in this research was an RTEP oriented learning approach to counter the...