#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...
PRESS STATEMENT Kampala, 16/October/2015, Unwanted Witness Uganda is welcoming the new investigative report revealing the government of Uganda’s grand ambitions of secret surveillance. The report released by Privacy International in UK titled “For God and My President” highlights the various actions that were undertaken by the various security agencies to install and infiltrate communication...
Privacy International’s new report, For God and My President: State Surveillance in Uganda, exposes the secret surveillance operation and the government’s attempts to buy further powerful surveillance tools, including a national communications monitoring centre and intrusion malware, in the absence of a rigorous legal framework governing communications surveillance. The report traces...
BREAKING: FOR GOD & MY PRESIDENT “We are saddened by these findings and we demand that the Kampala government should come out to explain why it is resorting to secret surveillance when citizens are yearning for service delivery with some starving to death. It’s a shame our leaders...
Data, data everywhere and companies sucking it up at breakneck speed, sometimes without rhyme or reason, just feeding the big data collection machine. A few years ago in an interview with Forbes, Tim O’Reilly famously said, “The Guy With The Most Data Wins.” It seems his statement was prescient, or...
By Francis Emorut KAMPALA – As Uganda readies for general elections due early next year, a Makerere University senior law lecturer is concerned that cyber hacking into information related to campaign strategies is poised to increase. Read More http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/670548-hacking-into-campaign-data-poised-to-rise.html
As Uganda joins the rest of the world to commemorate international women’s day, the Unwanted witness Uganda and women of Uganda Network are concerned about the increasing cyber violence and its harmful effects on women, which vice is likely to scare off women’s participation online. Currently the number of...
The Unwanted Witness in partnership with Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) have organised an online twitterthon to celebrate women’s day scheduled to take place on 06th March 2015, at 09:00hrs. Using #ICT4Women, the twitterthon shall create awareness and share information on the important role women have played in the...
CONVICTED: Stella Nyanzi’s 305 days of Sacrificing for Internet Freedom
Open Letter to the Speaker of Parliament of the Republic of Uganda
Discriminated by the Digital Identity Ecosystem.
News Brief: Social Media policing: Professional body orders Human Rights Lawyer to remove Facebook post.
News Brief: Computer Misuse Petition is set for final hearing.CONVICTED: Stella Nyanzi’s 305 days of Sacrificing for Internet FreedomOpen Letter to the Speaker of Parliament of the Republic of UgandaDiscriminated by the Digital Identity Ecosystem.News Brief: Social Media policing: Professional body orders Human Rights Lawyer to remove Facebook post.News Brief: Computer Misuse Petition is set for final hearing.
Copyright © 2019, Unwanted Witness.