Democracy Archives - Pollicy

Remote Working Toolkit: Tips & Tools to Productively Work from Home

padmin — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:13:51 +0000

With benefits such as renewing one’s passion for their job, increasing their productivity, flexibility, reducing costs, and plenty more, remote working might just be what everyone needs during this current environment and might as well be here to stay. So, perhaps you and I need to fully understand what it really is, how it is [...]

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Citizen Experiences: How to Improve the Usability of Government Websites

padmin — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:18:51 +0000

“A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it,” says Alexis de Tocqueville, a famous French diplomat. But de Tocqueville also believed the more people participate in a democracy, the more democratic it becomes. So how can governments increase participation so as to [...]

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Are we Asking the Right Questions? Data Use in Democracy

padmin — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 08:38:51 +0000

Facebook, founded in February 2004, has over time accumulated its revenue to as high as earning $16.6 billion in a single quarter; which it earned in the last quarter of 2018. For a company that is branded as a free social media and social networking service, one wonders where all this revenue comes from. Online reports [...]

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What does the Social Media Tax mean for Civic Tech and Governance?

padmin — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:15:34 +0000

It has been a few months since the government decided to slap a fee of 200 Ugandan shillings ($0.05) a day to use Over the Top (OTT) services such as popular social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp in what was dubbed the “Social Media Tax”. After its passing, the social media tax caused an [...]

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Highlights from the Field: Wetaase Community Champions, Part 2

padmin — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 08:28:36 +0000

Over 21 million of the world’s population has been victims of human trafficking, from children to young girls, women, and men, all victims. As human trafficking stands as a global problem, Africa has been the main victim of this international crime. It is to this cause that organizations like Pollicy have come out to embark [...]

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Highlights from the Field: Wetaase Community Champions, Part 1

padmin — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 08:37:33 +0000

“It’s perfect!” I exclaimed immediately after I had finished reading the application requirements. I guess it was the word “Champion” that caught my attention or was it that I had given up on sleeping as a career. Anyway, regardless of the reason I anxiously applied and said a quick prayer. All my life I had [...]

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Promoting CivicTech through Community Champions

padmin — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 08:41:38 +0000

In February 2018,Pollicy launched Wetaase, a mobile and web platform designed to combat human trafficking in Uganda, and the region, by raising awareness and utilizing data for advocacy and activism. Wetaase (a vernacular word meaning ‘help yourself’) aims to serve high-risk individuals, victims, and survivors of human trafficking from Uganda. An automated toll-free line is available 24 [...]

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How can Technology increase Political Participation?

padmin — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:34:44 +0000

Globally, both voter turnout and trust in governments have been plummeting. Many citizens have come to dislike politicians or feel disenfranchised by the entire system. In between elections, there aren’t many opportunities for ordinary people to influence the issues that affect them. But, in tech lies some hope. On February 18th 2016, Uganda held general [...]

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Does Size Matter for Uganda’s Youth in Politics?

padmin — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:22:59 +0000

Over the past year in Uganda, there have been a number of conversations about the growing youth demographic and its implications for the country. Uganda is one of the youngest countries in the world and the Uganda Bureau of Statistics estimates that 56.1 percent of Ugandans are under 18 years. We hear about how Uganda [...]

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