The Unwanted Witness Uganda is a civil society organization, whose mission is to contribute to good governance through effective and efficient use of the internet/ online activism through networking and strengthening capacities of citizens for collective advocacy and synergy. Unwanted Witness works closely with online activists, HRDs, and civil...
Re-thinking the workings of community radios: how community is a community radio in Uganda
The media in Uganda was owned and controlled by the state until the liberalization of the economy in 1990s. The liberation saw the establishment of privately owned media houses that opened up for business. The liberalized radios provided alternative platforms and voices to especially hard to reach areas focusing...
About the Project
“Land is the source of our livelihood; it helps to produce food to feed families, provides a place of cultural and social belonging with symbolic and spiritual values that communities consistently reinforce and provides a place of residence, a registered address to allow peo- ple to vote in elections...
Europe’s next privacy war is with websites silently tracking users
European data protection watchdogs publish guidance on web tracking using device fingerprinting that could result in more ‘I agree’ forms The pan-European data regulator group Article 29 has issued new opinion on how websites and advertisers can track users and the permissions they require. The new opinion dictates that...
How to Protect Yourself From Unethical Or Illegal Spying
A quick Google search for “spy software” yields over a 100 million results. Clearly, there is massive interest in spying software and gadgets. Irrespective of the motivation or justification for spying (such as spousal infidelity), spying is illegal and a gross invasion of privacy in most countries around the...
Regin Cyber-Spy Malware Targeted High-Priority Intelligence Quarry
NEWS ANALYSIS: It’s not likely that your network will get hit by the Regin malware by accident. But if you discover it on your network it means that somebody big and powerful is after you. Finding the Regin malware on your network is sort of like getting an unexpected...
Hacker Lexicon: What Is End-to-End Encryption?
Plenty of companies brag that their communications app is encrypted. But that marketing claim demands a followup question: Who has the key? In many cases, the company itself holds the cryptographic key data that lets it decrypt your messages—and so, therefore, does any hacker who compromises the company or...
Youth to youth Fund
As we aim at fostering an enterprising youth movement in Kampala through ICT, Unwanted Witness tapped into the ICT graduates who have gone through and continue to go through the it` s internship placement program that takes over 5 youths quarterly and training them with practical ICT innovative skills....
An asylum seeker from Uganda marches with the LGBT Asylum Support Task Force during the Gay Pride Parade in Boston, Massachusetts on June 8, 2013.
UW Photo:evicted without compensation from her home by security forces in Mubende district, this woman found a new home
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