The first time I ever got into an election was in Primary School. My friend, Ghalib Thabit – Ugandan of Asian descent - was running for Health Prefect and he needed, badly, to win the election. Gha...
UNICEF Uganda is innovating to reach EVERY child in Uganda's most remote areas. Providing ACCESS to information, education, and health services so that no ch...
With the Government fianlising plans to have a private investor take over Lake Victoria, one then wonders what else we shall be left with. Well, before people can lose their minds on this whole sal...
In an era where there is rampant sports betting and the said fixture appeared on the fixtures available that day, there is talk, some money moguls might have influenced the outcome from the game.
In this article written by Kagayi Peter, President of the Lantern Meet of Poets, more light is shed on the absurdity of trite humour that Ugandan audiences are treated with by the respective social...
More than 1,100 women and children are raped every day in the DRC, where it is routinely used as a weapon of war. Dr Mukwege, the latest recipient of the Sakharov Prize, has treated 19,000 of them.
A beggar arrested in Iran on Wednesday had millions of rials (millions of Ugandan shillings) in his pockets and a great deal more in two bank accounts.
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Esther Kalenzi founder of 40 Days over 40 Smiles talks to us about ...
One city. Two Ugandan babies. Two tragic episodes. Two different outcomes. One country. Two different worlds. I have been trying to make sense of two related episodes involving children, their caretakers, the authorities, and our collective response to them
The speaker of the of the East African Legislative Assembly Margaret Zziwa has been suspended for 21 days and is not allowed to preside over any business in the House.
The Director of Public Prosecution has cleared Assistant Superintendent of Police Gilbert Bwana Arinaitwe of any wrong doing in the brutal arrest of Kiiza
The 2014 Uganda Internet Governance Forum (UIGF), will be hosted by the Internet Society (ISOC) Uganda Uganda in partnership with CIPESA. The forum will bring together a wide variety of stakeholders including representatives from UCC, NITA-U, Ministry of ICT, I-Network, LUG, Members of Parliament, Uganda Police, Internet Service Providers, Academia, Civil Society Organizations and Internet users to discuss issues related to Internet governance issues in Uganda. The UIGF is a multi-stakeholder event that involves representatives from government, civil society, academia, private sector, entities and individuals interested in Internet Governance issues. The objectives of the UIGF are to: Identify IG issues relevant to Uganda; Build a consensus on national and regional positions around relevant IG issues and create awareness about various IG issues, such as online safety. Since its inauguration in 2006, the UIGF has continued to discuss and address Internet Policy issues in Uganda and East Africa. To date, seven forums have been held with each addressing different thematic areas. Under the theme “Strengthening Uganda’s Critical Internet Resources’, this years’ forum follows a consultative process that involved soliciting comments from the Uganda internet community on key areas for IG discussion in Uganda. Discussions were run on the Internet Society Uganda Chapter and the I-Network mailing lists. Key areas to be addressed include: - Status of implementation of the Universal Service Fund; Internet cost/bundling; Updates on IPv6 implementation road map; Whether Uganda complies with regional legislative and regulatory frameworks; Cyber security including violence against women online; Data protection and privacy in the new era of internet of things; Child Online Protection; .ug ccTLD management; Status on the operations of the Uganda Internet Exchange Point, among others. The event will also serve as the launch of the Global Information Society (GIS) Watch 2014 Uganda report. The report on UIGF 2013 is available at http://www.cipesa.org/?wpfb_dl=93
This video was produced in June 2014 by the School of International Development, University of East Anglia The text and storyboarding were researched by Davi...
Mobile phone footage circulating on social media of women being stripped by gangs of men sparks a debate about gender rights and freedoms, writes the BBC's Emmanuel Igunza.
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