01 The Digital Divide Extends to Language
his white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing…
02 What is big data, anyway?
“If someone sends you a 20MB dataset file and claims they have sent you big data,…
03 Meet the Fellows: Reflections on lessons, skills and growth during the 2022 Pollicy Fellowship Programme
Since 2017, we have been running a fellowship program that aims to introduce students and young…
04 African Women in AI: Pivots, Perseverances and Pleasures
In 2021, led by Sandra Nabulega, Pollicy began to research the impact of Artificial Intelligence on…
05 What Digital Resilience Means For  Women In Leadership
The world has evolved and communication now goes beyond writing letters and using traditional mass media…
06 The VOTE: Women Curriculum launch: Ugandan and Tanzanian Women Leaders Speak up
Women, in general, face so many hurdles in careers or their ordinary lives. They face multiple…
07 ‘Build with, not for’- A recap of our Digital Ambassador Program partners’ progress meetings
"For me, the program is inclusive since it has a huge consideration of young women who…
08 Join us on Instagram
We are now on Instagram. Follow us https://www.instagram.com/pollicyorg/ there to dive deeeper into our events and…
09 Ideating Towards a Data Collaborative Tool for the Marginalized Communities
On the 17th of February 2022 Pollicy in conjunction with Tranz Network Uganda, Freedom and Roam…
010 How do DATA, ART + MENTAL HEALTH impact each other?
For many years, art has proven to be a great tool for social advocacy. Art exists…
011 Here’s how to break into Data Journalism – A journalist’s perspective
Four years ago, If you had asked me to participate in a discussion about data, I…
012 Inside the second DataFest Kampala
We had to take a year-long hiatus as a result of the pandemic in 2020, so…
013 Is our Government embracing Civic Technology enough?
The citizenry of Uganda doesn’t really ask for much. But perhaps, we could ask for a…
014 Digital SafeTea Social Media Challenge | Privacy Policy, Terms, and Conditions
Digital Safetea is an interactive fiction game based on the stories of Goitse, Aisha, and Dami…
015 The Data Revolution:Here’s how data has been molded into the fabric of our daily lives today
“Data is the new oil” is this simple yet very meaningful mantra repeated by the media…
016 Free To Be Online: How We Are Engaging Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for Safer Spaces Online
This short but saddening statement comes from Bailey Poland’s book on online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV), “Haters…
017 Participatory methods and COVID-19: Conducting online focus group discussions in low-resource settings
Focus group discussions are one of the most formalised and utilised participatory research methods. As a…
018 Here’s a Step by Step Introduction to Data Analysis with STATA
In today’s digital world, the use of data has become a day-to-day business requirement be it…
019 Our Growing Collection of Digital Security Tips
Every year since 2003, the month of October has been recognized as National Cyber Security Awareness…
020 Data and Misinformation Part 3
Here’s how data analytics and open-source tools can be used to identify misinformation and disinformation networks…