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#DigitalPublicInfrastructure is changing how Africans access services, vote, and transact. But technical integration is moving faster than the safeguards meant to protect rights.
Our State of Internet Freedom in Africa 2026 report recommends:
✅ Governments: assess human lout, keep offline alternatives and end internet shutdowns.
✅ Oversight bodies: regularly audit ID databases and data exchange systems.
✅ Tech firms and telcos: carry out human rights due diligence.
✅ Funders: measure success by inclusion and remedy, not enrolment numbers.
✅ Civil society: engage early in DPI design and procurement.
Read the full report: tinyurl.com/5t3k94dp
#DigitalRights #InternetFreedomAfrica #DPI
Our State of Internet Freedom in Africa 2026 report recommends:
✅ Governments: assess human lout, keep offline alternatives and end internet shutdowns.
✅ Oversight bodies: regularly audit ID databases and data exchange systems.
✅ Tech firms and telcos: carry out human rights due diligence.
✅ Funders: measure success by inclusion and remedy, not enrolment numbers.
✅ Civil society: engage early in DPI design and procurement.
Read the full report: tinyurl.com/5t3k94dp
#DigitalRights #InternetFreedomAfrica #DPI
CIPESA’s study of 11 African countries warns digital ID and public service systems could deepen exclusion without stronger governance, connectivity and human rights safeguards.
#DigitalIdentity #DPI
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The session on Technology, Digital Rights and Business and Human Rights put one question on the table: as data, #AI and automation reshape how Ugandan businesses work, who is protecting the people on the other end?
Gilbert Ssettuuma, Personal Data Protection Office: “If your ut a human in the loop and the outcome affects your rights, you have recourse with the PDPO. You don’t need a lawyer, just the evidence.” He challenged every business in the room: “Do you have a privacy notice? You are definitely collecting people’s personal data. Without that, you are in breach of the law.”
Bonnita @nyamwire , Pollicy: “Even before we get to violations, people don’t understand what is being violated.” In one study, local officials thought “data” meant internet bundles. When Pollicy mapped support services for survivors of online harassment across several regions, they found none.
Assoc. Prof. Florence Tushabe, Soroti University: “The digital divide was already wide. AI literacy is compounding it.” On data sovereignty: “You cannot be sovereign when you depend on someone who can switch you on and off.” Her call to businesses: trust local talent. “Buy Uganda, build Uganda.”
Yasmin Ahmed, @femtechXlaw : “Digitalisation for businesses in this country is an afterthought.” On age bans for children online: “That is safety by exclusion. A digital product should be safe by design.”
Gilbert Ssettuuma, Personal Data Protection Office: “If your ut a human in the loop and the outcome affects your rights, you have recourse with the PDPO. You don’t need a lawyer, just the evidence.” He challenged every business in the room: “Do you have a privacy notice? You are definitely collecting people’s personal data. Without that, you are in breach of the law.”
Bonnita @nyamwire , Pollicy: “Even before we get to violations, people don’t understand what is being violated.” In one study, local officials thought “data” meant internet bundles. When Pollicy mapped support services for survivors of online harassment across several regions, they found none.
Assoc. Prof. Florence Tushabe, Soroti University: “The digital divide was already wide. AI literacy is compounding it.” On data sovereignty: “You cannot be sovereign when you depend on someone who can switch you on and off.” Her call to businesses: trust local talent. “Buy Uganda, build Uganda.”
Yasmin Ahmed, @femtechXlaw : “Digitalisation for businesses in this country is an afterthought.” On age bans for children online: “That is safety by exclusion. A digital product should be safe by design.”
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At the ongoing 7th National Forum on Business and Human Rights, our Country Director highlighted Enabel's contribution to advancing responsible business conduct.
Through the @EUinUG-funded Business and Human Rights Project, we are contributing to building a business mic growth goes hand in hand with respect for human rights.
#BHRForum2026
#EnablingChange
At the ongoing 7th National Forum on Business and Human Rights, our Country Director highlighted Enabel's contribution to advancing responsible business conduct.
Through the @EUinUG-funded Business and Human Rights Project, we are contributing to building a business mic growth goes hand in hand with respect for human rights.
#BHRForum2026
#EnablingChange
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The #BeeraSharp chatbot is your personal digital safety assistant: free, 24/7, and always in your pocket. 👀
Received a suspicious message asking for your PIN? Lost access to your social media? Worried someone is monitoring your phone? BeeraSharp has answers.
What BeeraSharp shing & mobile money scams.
🟠Recover hacked accounts.
🟠Detect stalkerware.
🟠Report online harassment.
🟠Know your rights under Uganda's Data Protection & Computer Misuse Acts.
Describe your problem in plain language and get step-by-step guidance.
Chat on web or Telegram 👇
beerasharp.internetfreedom.africa
Received a suspicious message asking for your PIN? Lost access to your social media? Worried someone is monitoring your phone? BeeraSharp has answers.
What BeeraSharp shing & mobile money scams.
🟠Recover hacked accounts.
🟠Detect stalkerware.
🟠Report online harassment.
🟠Know your rights under Uganda's Data Protection & Computer Misuse Acts.
Describe your problem in plain language and get step-by-step guidance.
Chat on web or Telegram 👇
beerasharp.internetfreedom.africa
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Our Digital Security Clinic is open at the 7th Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights, Sheraton Kampala, and the doors are wide open!
This morning, @EnabelinUganda Country Director Nicolas Oebel named the exploitation of data among the harms businesses must answer for, and micro and small businesses are part of this conversation too. Customer records, mobile money details and staff data are all human rights issues now.
Do you run a business, big or small? Stop by the Exhibition Space and let our team walk you through the Digital Rights Toolkit for Businesses. In just a few minutes, we will help you:
✅ Run a quick digital security self-assessment.
✅ Secure your business accounts with two-factor authentication.
✅ Check how you collect, store and share customer data.
✅ Spot phishing and suspicious links before they cost you.
✅ Understand your obligations under Uganda’s data protection law.
Walk in with questions, walk out with a business your customers can trust.
#BeeraSharp because your business has eliminated all digital risks.
📍 Exhibition Space, open today and tomorrow
#BusinessAndHumanRights #DigitalRights #DataProtection
This morning, @EnabelinUganda Country Director Nicolas Oebel named the exploitation of data among the harms businesses must answer for, and micro and small businesses are part of this conversation too. Customer records, mobile money details and staff data are all human rights issues now.
Do you run a business, big or small? Stop by the Exhibition Space and let our team walk you through the Digital Rights Toolkit for Businesses. In just a few minutes, we will help you:
✅ Run a quick digital security self-assessment.
✅ Secure your business accounts with two-factor authentication.
✅ Check how you collect, store and share customer data.
✅ Spot phishing and suspicious links before they cost you.
✅ Understand your obligations under Uganda’s data protection law.
Walk in with questions, walk out with a business your customers can trust.
#BeeraSharp because your business has eliminated all digital risks.
📍 Exhibition Space, open today and tomorrow
#BusinessAndHumanRights #DigitalRights #DataProtection
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For the next two days, we join @Mglsd_UG, businesses, and partners for the 7th National Forum on Business and Human Rights, held under the theme: “Reflecting on Progress and Strengthening Commitment: The Journey of Uganda’s National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights.”
As Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAPBHR) approaches the end of its implementation period, the forum provides an opportunity to take stock of achievements, examine persistent gaps, and identify priority actions to advance responsible business conduct.
The discussions will help shape the way forward for sustaining progress, strengthening accountability and promoting respect for human rights in business at national, regional and international levels.
The event is part of the @EUinUG-funded Advancing respect for human rights by businesses in Uganda project.
#BHRForum2026
#EnablingChange
As Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAPBHR) approaches the end of its implementation period, the forum provides an opportunity to take stock of achievements, examine persistent gaps, and identify priority actions to advance responsible business conduct.
The discussions will help shape the way forward for sustaining progress, strengthening accountability and promoting respect for human rights in business at national, regional and international levels.
The event is part of the @EUinUG-funded Advancing respect for human rights by businesses in Uganda project.
#BHRForum2026
#EnablingChange
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We are at the 7th Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights in Kampala, taking stock of Uganda’s National Action Plan five years on.
Speaking for the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development, Asst. Commissioner Equity and Rights, Lydia Nabiryo was y is only the beginning. The real measure of success is not what we committed to on paper, but what has actually changed in people’s lives.
Through the (Advancing Respect for Human Rights by Businesses in Uganda) ARBHR project with the Ministry, Enabel and the European Union, we have backed CSOs across 12 districts.
Find us at the Digital Rights Toolkit clinic, and at our session on Technology, Digital Rights and business rights at 15:30 today.
#BusinessAndHumanRights #BeeraSharp
Speaking for the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development, Asst. Commissioner Equity and Rights, Lydia Nabiryo was y is only the beginning. The real measure of success is not what we committed to on paper, but what has actually changed in people’s lives.
Through the (Advancing Respect for Human Rights by Businesses in Uganda) ARBHR project with the Ministry, Enabel and the European Union, we have backed CSOs across 12 districts.
Find us at the Digital Rights Toolkit clinic, and at our session on Technology, Digital Rights and business rights at 15:30 today.
#BusinessAndHumanRights #BeeraSharp
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CIPESA retweeted
PHOTOS: Day 1 of the 7th Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights is on going.
Today’s conversations center on our theme: “Reflecting on Progress and Strengthening Commitment: The journey of Uganda’s National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights.”
#BHRForum2026 d_UG @EnabelinUganda
@FIDA_Uganda @EOC_UG
@ug_lawsociety @cipesaug
Today’s conversations center on our theme: “Reflecting on Progress and Strengthening Commitment: The journey of Uganda’s National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights.”
#BHRForum2026 d_UG @EnabelinUganda
@FIDA_Uganda @EOC_UG
@ug_lawsociety @cipesaug
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When Smart Cities Turn Menacing?
In June 2025, #Uganda switched on the Automated Electronic Penalty System (#EPSAuto), using CCTV cameras, automatic number plate recognition (ANPR), and an intelligent transport monitoring system (#ITMS) to fine motorists. But the system, nging order to the country’s chaotic roads, quickly generated controversy.
EPSAuto was suspended within days. More than a year later, on October 6, Ugandan Attorney General Sam Mayanja declared that the 2021 contract with a Russian company for the ITMS, including digital number plates and vehicle tracking, was legally void and unenforceable.
The experience points to a bigger question confronting countries in Africa and elsewhere, what happens when the technologies introduced to make cities safer also make it easier for the government to identify and track its citizens?
Learn more here: tinyurl.com/5h3wruzs
In June 2025, #Uganda switched on the Automated Electronic Penalty System (#EPSAuto), using CCTV cameras, automatic number plate recognition (ANPR), and an intelligent transport monitoring system (#ITMS) to fine motorists. But the system, nging order to the country’s chaotic roads, quickly generated controversy.
EPSAuto was suspended within days. More than a year later, on October 6, Ugandan Attorney General Sam Mayanja declared that the 2021 contract with a Russian company for the ITMS, including digital number plates and vehicle tracking, was legally void and unenforceable.
The experience points to a bigger question confronting countries in Africa and elsewhere, what happens when the technologies introduced to make cities safer also make it easier for the government to identify and track its citizens?
Learn more here: tinyurl.com/5h3wruzs
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Portraying my 1st FIFAfrica experience in 2019, and how, over the years, my engagement and role in the forum(s) shifted significantly when I decided to challenge my thinking, push self-imposed barriers and, above all, overcome imposter syndrome.
@cipesaug
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That’s a wrap on the #KTASymposium!
For two days, we joined the push to build Africa’s Digital Single Market. Our message was that cross-border digital trade only works if people trust it, so data protection and security have to be built in from the start.
To everyone who Security Clinic, thank you! We are glad we helped make your devices more secure and showed you safer ways to communicate. 🔐
Now pass it on. Share what you learnt with your loved ones, your colleagues and your workplace. Digital security is strongest when everyone around you has it too.
#DigitalRights
For two days, we joined the push to build Africa’s Digital Single Market. Our message was that cross-border digital trade only works if people trust it, so data protection and security have to be built in from the start.
To everyone who Security Clinic, thank you! We are glad we helped make your devices more secure and showed you safer ways to communicate. 🔐
Now pass it on. Share what you learnt with your loved ones, your colleagues and your workplace. Digital security is strongest when everyone around you has it too.
#DigitalRights
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@cipesaug at the #KTASymposium2026
“Regional integration can no longer only be about removing physical borders. We must also remove the digital barriers between our markets.”
In her remarks at #KTASymposium2026, Rt. Hon. @RebeccaKadagaUG, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Community ext frontier of East African integration: making it easier for businesses, payments and digital services to move across the region.
From interoperable payment systems to digital identities, electronic signatures, cybersecurity and consumer protection, the systems connecting our markets must work together.
The frameworks and ambitions are there. The measure of progress now is implementation and whether businesses and people can actually experience the region as one connected market.
@jumuiya @kta_law @meaca_ug
#KTASymposium2026 #DigitalSingleMarket #DigitalTrade #EastAfricanCommunity #RegionalIntegration #AfCFTA
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#SmartCities in Africa have been accompanied by the shady underbelly of #surveillance, undue #datacollection and various other concerns. Note this deep dive into the topic by @cipesaug Executive Director, Wairagala Wakabi which features in @ProSyn.
For #InternetFreedomAfrica to be realised, transparency and accountability must be key in the systems employed to support civic safety and participation.
For #InternetFreedomAfrica to be realised, transparency and accountability must be key in the systems employed to support civic safety and participation.
African governments often buy surveillance systems without public disclosure of how much they cost, what they can do, who can access them, and what data is collected or who can use it, @cipesaug’s Wairagala Wakabi writes. bit.ly/4sl8OT4
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Day two at the #KTASymposium and our Digital Security Clinic is still open for business! 🔐
Pop by the desk outside the Kampala Grand Hall and let our team give your devices a proper check-up.
Switch on two-factor, spot the phishing email, sniff out the fake Wi-Fi network and u came.
While you are at it, play Safe Passage BINGO. Complete a line, hand in your card by 3:00pm and you are in today’s raffle for our GRAND PRIZE! 🏆
🕓 Open until 4:00pm today. The clock is ticking, so grab your devicesand come play! 🎯
#DigitalSecurity #DigitalRights
Pop by the desk outside the Kampala Grand Hall and let our team give your devices a proper check-up.
Switch on two-factor, spot the phishing email, sniff out the fake Wi-Fi network and u came.
While you are at it, play Safe Passage BINGO. Complete a line, hand in your card by 3:00pm and you are in today’s raffle for our GRAND PRIZE! 🏆
🕓 Open until 4:00pm today. The clock is ticking, so grab your devicesand come play! 🎯
#DigitalSecurity #DigitalRights
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It was a pleasure hosting you at #FIFAfrica26! Thank you for sharing this. Onwards we go as the #InternetFreedomAfrica community 💪🏾
Our reflections from #FIFAfrica26
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At the 9th KTA Annual Africa Tech and IP Symposium in Kampala, themed Building Africa’s Digital Single Market, our own Edrine Wanyama joined the panel on Cybersecurity in the Digital Single Market, tackling who answers when a Kampala shop selling to Nairobi and Kigali, storing a, suffers a breach.
Edrine put it simply.
“We need to think about how a trader feels dealing with someone within their own jurisdiction versus someone outside it. Beyond that feeling is how secure their dealings actually are, and whether there is anyone in government who will protect them when things go wrong.”
That is what harmonised data governance across Africa is ultimately for, and why CIPESA keeps advocating for it.
#KTASymposium2026
Edrine put it simply.
“We need to think about how a trader feels dealing with someone within their own jurisdiction versus someone outside it. Beyond that feeling is how secure their dealings actually are, and whether there is anyone in government who will protect them when things go wrong.”
That is what harmonised data governance across Africa is ultimately for, and why CIPESA keeps advocating for it.
#KTASymposium2026
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CIPESA retweeted
🔴Happening NOW | Panel Session: "Cybersecurity in the Digital Single Market: Designing the Architecture for a Borderless African Economy."
Host: @ciocxo_dlf cybersecurity working group.
Moderator: Rebecca Kalende, CIO Women Circle.
Panelists (L-R): @qoolunungi, Executive gital Leadership Forum, Davis Othieno, Manager, Compliance & Investigations at @pdpoUG, and Edrine Wanyama, Programme Manager, Legal, @cipesaug
#KTASymposium2026
Host: @ciocxo_dlf cybersecurity working group.
Moderator: Rebecca Kalende, CIO Women Circle.
Panelists (L-R): @qoolunungi, Executive gital Leadership Forum, Davis Othieno, Manager, Compliance & Investigations at @pdpoUG, and Edrine Wanyama, Programme Manager, Legal, @cipesaug
#KTASymposium2026
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#Encryption is a digital rights safeguard. It protects journalists’ sources, secures civil society communications and enables citizens to participate in public debate without fear of surveillance.
As Global Partners Digital relaunches its World Map of Encryption Laws and cryptionDay, we examine why African governments must address online harms without weakening the protections millions rely on.
Delve deeper into this: tinyurl.com/5n77ttmc
As Global Partners Digital relaunches its World Map of Encryption Laws and cryptionDay, we examine why African governments must address online harms without weakening the protections millions rely on.
Delve deeper into this: tinyurl.com/5n77ttmc
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CIPESA retweeted
➡️Next Session (2 PM):
We are hosting a panel session on “Cybersecurity in the Digital Single Market: Designing the Architecture for a Borderless African Economy.”
Moderator: Rebecca Kalende, CIO Women Circle.
Panelists:
1. Edrine Wanyama, Programme Manager, Legal, @cipesaug.
2. Macgyver Mugamba, Manager, Data Protection and legal advisory at @UCC_Official.
3. Elizabeth Busingye, CIO Women Circle, Co-founder
@safeyouafrica.
4. Justus Van Nkera, Cybersecurity Expert and ICT Auditor
#KTASymposium2026
We are hosting a panel session on “Cybersecurity in the Digital Single Market: Designing the Architecture for a Borderless African Economy.”
Moderator: Rebecca Kalende, CIO Women Circle.
Panelists:
1. Edrine Wanyama, Programme Manager, Legal, @cipesaug.
2. Macgyver Mugamba, Manager, Data Protection and legal advisory at @UCC_Official.
3. Elizabeth Busingye, CIO Women Circle, Co-founder
@safeyouafrica.
4. Justus Van Nkera, Cybersecurity Expert and ICT Auditor
#KTASymposium2026
The CIO-CXO Digital Leadership Forum is honored to be a strategic partner of the KTA Annual Africa Technology and Intellectual Property Symposium.
Happening NOW 🔴 at the Kampala Marriott Hotel. You can follow online: youtube.com/live/OErjsIbMr…
#KTASymposium2026
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“A fragmented market of 55 African countries is a death sentence for startups.”
Gen. Wilson Mbasu Mbadi at #KTASymposium2026 called for Africa to move “from frameworks to functioning” and harmonizing markets so businesses can trade and scale across borders with less friction. ociety @kta_law @giz_uganda
#DigitalSingleMarket #AfCFTA
Gen. Wilson Mbasu Mbadi at #KTASymposium2026 called for Africa to move “from frameworks to functioning” and harmonizing markets so businesses can trade and scale across borders with less friction. ociety @kta_law @giz_uganda
#DigitalSingleMarket #AfCFTA
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