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Your Guide to Online Safety while Working Remotely
The COVID-19 pandemic has reaffirmed the need for individuals, activists, and organizations to integrate digital technologies…
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Here’s Your Transformative Guide on your Data Visualization Journey
Visual communication is a must-have skill for everyone who works with or uses data. This is…
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Here’s our Visual Guide to Digital Data Collection (in the time of COVID19)
Rather than calling off or pushing data collection activities because of the pandemic, you can decide…
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A Mega-Thread of Visuals on the Origin, Propagation and Nature of Disinformation
Fact-checking and Verification have since long been crucial skills for journalists even before the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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Here’s a Guide to Organising Successful Virtual Events
A few months ago, virtual events were adopted as a means to minimize costs while reaching…
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DataFestKLA2020 is Postponed
It is with heavy hearts that we are announcing the postponement of DataFest Kampala, which was…
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Data & Misinformation Pt2: A Step-by-step Guide to Identify and Avoid Statistical Fallacies
Statistics refers to a branch of mathematics concerned with the collection, classification, analysis, and interpretation of…
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What’s in a chart? A Step-by-Step guide to Identifying Misinformation in a Data Visualization
The world produces over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each data, so much data that it…
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Citizen Experiences: How to Improve the Usability of Government Websites
“A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can…
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We’re hiring — Administrative Assistant, Uganda
Do you love civic technology? Are you a people aficionado? Are you interested in working with…
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Why Isn’t Civic Technology Living up to its Promises?
To be unsuccessful in achieving one’s goal. Online and digital technologies that provide a link between…
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A Growing Collection of Our Data Tips
Everyday at Pollicy, we publish a series of #datatips to keep audiences learning. We’ve decided to…
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How Governments can Incorporate Data Science to Improve Service Delivery
The existence of tremendous amounts of data has led to an increased interest in analyzing it…
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How is A.I. impacting your job now and in the future?
There is a tremendous amount of data generated today — so much that our normal databases…
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Feminist Internet Research on Cyberharassment: Re-victimization or Recuperation?
Last month, we (Pollicy and Berhan Taye) introduced our project on examining online or technology-facilitated gender-based…
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Are we Asking the Right Questions?: Data Use in Democracy
Facebook, founded in February 2004, has over time accumulated its revenue to as high as earning…
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Civic Participation: How to Use Technology to Participate
The use of technology in business has greatly transformed the sector by opening up diverse opportunities…
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Meet the Fellows: Nicholas Masete & Brain Kojjo
At Pollicy, we run a fellowship program that aims to introducing students and young professionals to…
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A Survival Guide to being a Woman (on the Internet): Feminist Research for a Feminist Internet
Many internet freedom advocates agree that women and sexual minorities are victims of harassment, doxxing, revenge…
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Open Data vs. Data Protection: Where are We Now?
Data is currently the big talk on everyone’s mind. Words like ‘big data’ and ‘open data’…