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ICT4Democracy in East Africa Network to Participate in Inaugural Buntwani Conference
The ICT4Democracy in East Africa network will participate in the first Buntwani conference scheduled...
Can the media help save the Peace Recovery and Development Project?
By Emily Mullins In early July, the Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern A...
ICT4Democracy in East Africa: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights Through ICTs
Established in 2011, ICT4Democracy in East Africa is a network of organisations working to promote d...
African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms for Launch at 2014 IGF
The African Declaration Drafter’s Group is pleased to present the African Declaration on Internet ...
CIPESA's Reflections on the Third Africa Internet Governance Forum, 2014
By Lillian Nalwoga. With the internet projected to reach almost 20 per cent of the Africa population...
Uganda Launches Portal to Support Citizens’ Right to Information
14 August 2014 Press Statement For immediate release Uganda Launches Portal to Support Citizens’ R...
Colonial Laws Stunt Internet Freedoms in Tanzania
By Juliet Nanfuka Tanzania’s port of Dar es Saalam is one of the landing stations of the Eastern A...
Promoting E-Governance and Citizen Participation in Mayuge District, Uganda
By Maria Nakirya The Busoga Rural Open Source and Development Initiative (BROSDI) with support from ...
Vodafone Reveals Government Requests for Subscriber Information
By Ashnah Kalemera & Juliet N. Nanfuka The true extent of governments’ surveillance and monito...
SMS System Boosts Reporting of Human Rights Abuses in Tanzania
Growing the capacity of citizens and civic groups including human rights networks to use Information...
Uganda: When National Security Trumps Citizens’ Internet Freedoms
The Ugandan telecommunications sector was liberalised in 1998, resulting in an influx of service pro...
Internet Freedom in Kenya: Balancing Hate Speech And Free Speech
By Juliet N. Nanfuka As of May 2014, up to 52% of Kenya’s population had access to the internet. T...
Open Data: Can it Play a Role in Poverty Eradication?
By Emily Mullins Open data is widely believed to have the potential to positively influence transpar...
Online Privacy and Security: The Debate And The Dilemma
By Ashnah Kalemera The issue of internet users’ privacy and security has been widely debated since...
Internet Freedom in Rwanda – A State of Monitored Media
This year, Rwanda observed 20 years since the 1994 genocide. Many stories were shared online informi...
Internet Freedom in Ethiopia: Firmly gripped on(line) communications
As a country with one of the lowest levels of ICT use in Africa, Ethiopia’s online presence is fur...
Online Freedoms in Burundi – Breaking the boundaries of online commentary
Since the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector in 1997, Burundi has seen a consistent gro...
Are East African States Using ‘Terrorism’ to Stifle Internet Freedoms?
By Edris Kisambira On May 23, 2014, the Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southe...
Launch of the Internet Freedoms in East Africa 2014 Report
Today, the Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) launches T...
New Laws in Uganda Restrict Citizens’ Rights
By Juliet Nanfuka Recently introduced laws and regulations in Uganda have caused a stir both within ...
Call for Consultants – Policy Analysis: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
The Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) is seeking Consul...
Local leaders in Kasese District Trained in e-Governance
This month, the Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) and t...
AfricaICTResearch.org: New Portal on ICTs, State and Peace Building Research in Africa
Although the use of Information and Communication Technologies by citizens and governments in Africa...
Towards an African Declaration on Internet Rights
As internet usage continues to grow in Africa, so does the interest by governments to monitor users�...
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