INTRODUCTION The Uganda government through its agencies has for years focused on curtailing expression platforms such as assemblies and the traditional media spaces, as documented by Human Rights Watch report in 2015. As a result, citizens are shifting to the online space to express themselves, particularly using Internet enabled...
During early years of internet penetration in Uganda, many if not all Ugandans who had access to the internet by then utilized the internet majorly to connect with friends and family on socialize matters. The trend continued with the introduction of mobile networks on to the market, enabling users...
By Observer Team Godfrey Mutabazi, the executive director of the Uganda Communications Commission, has said in a sworn affidavit that he blocked social media sites on election day, February 18, at the urging of the Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura. In the affidavit sworn in support of President...
Hiding behind the color of the law to stifle Internet freedoms; government should review and amend the cyber legal framework – says the Unwanted Witness Uganda As we join the rest of the world to commemorate the internet freedoms day 2015, the Unwanted Witness Uganda would like to ask...
SHRINKING CIVIC POLITICAL SPACE; Government Seeks To Amend the Anti-Terrorism Act to target civil society foreign funding. Kampala, 08th/01/2016; Barely six months after the Anti Terrorism Act, 2002 was amended the government is plotting to amend the same law targeting how civil society organizations attract funds. In a move...
#Internet4Ug Digital rights describe the human rights that allow individuals to access, use, create and publish digital media or to access and use computers, other electronic devices or communications networks. There is recognition at the global level that the rights citizens enjoy online need to be protected as much...
By the Unwanted Witness team; Have you ever thought of spending hours or even a day without a cell phone? Well, Mobile phones are no longer luxuries but they are daily part of our lives and with the current internet enabled mobile (smart) phones, one can easily get connected...
#Internet4Ug By the Unwanted Witness team; Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are now an irreplaceable tool in society given the number of people going online to conduct everyday activities such as business and banking, education, seeking employment, civic engagements and forming and maintaining social relationships. For many of us,...
By the Unwanted Witness Uganda has experienced decades of civil strives especially as a result of power struggling during regime change. This greatly jeopardized the security of the country and individuals. For almost thirty years now since the overthrow of the Obote government by the National Resistance Army in...
By the Unwanted Witness When Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook announced the launch of internet.org on 21st August 2013, such a development was seen as a change maker in the sector and brought smiles on faces of many citizens in Africa. A continent with the highest...
Blocking social media is a direct attack on democracy in Uganda, says Unwanted Witness Uganda.
Legalizing digital technology in Uganda’s electoral process, but are privacy rights and freedoms protected?
Unwanted Witness Condemns the Heinous Acts of Violence Against Journalists
Google must disregard the Government of Uganda’s requests intended to silence legitimate dissent
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