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Privacy Symposium Africa 2022
This year the 4th Privacy Symposium Africa is co-organized by Unwanted Witness, and the Centre for Intellectual Property an…
Digital Creatives Meet Up, Uganda: Enduring blind spots and Infinite opportunities
Pollicy invites you on Friday, October 28th for a conversation on the digital creatives industry in Uganda happening at MoT…
Digital Security Expo 2022
The expo seeks to bring together technologists, innovators, start-ups, the private sector, telecoms, banks, the Ministry of…
Twitter Spaces: Experiences of Mental Health Advocates
Join Andariya Magazine and Awesome Mind Speaks as they engage and share their experiences and journeys advocating on Mental…
AIRA Talks VI: Tech Sector Accountability for Digital Rights
#AIRATalks! The sixth and final #AIRATalks this year will discuss Tech Sector Accountability for Digital Rights. Join in! …
Register For the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa 2022 (FIFAfrica22)
Interested in being part of this year's Forum on #InternetFreedom in #Africa? For the first time in two years, the forum wi…
Digital Human Rights Defenders, Meet!
Unplugged but still connected- Join us for another linking and learning session as we dissect the activities of the various…
East and Central Africa Privacy Engagement- #ECAPRE2022
What You Need to Know About Your Digital Trail: Privacy in the Era of Datafication
#DHRLcollaborating4impact
DHRLab community commemorate the transition of all members towards a collaborative self sustaining mode of operation, under…
Redefining African Women's Bias, Stereotypes and Discrimination in Tech
How can African women work in the tech industry without facing stereotypes and discrimination? Join the discussion on the o…
Capacity Building Workshop
Building and Maintaining Successful Coalitions and Partnerships
Workshop on Mental Health Programming and Communication among HRDs
Awesome Mind Speaks (AMS) aims at fostering a supportive and productive environment through capacity building and strengthe…
Linking and Learning
Building Sustainable Digital Innovations. Exploring Emerging Opportunities for Human Rights Defenders
Linking and Learning
Digital Security Helpline for Human rights Defenders
Intellectual Property Training for HRDs
This training is premised on the protection of intellectual rights for the creatives in the DHRLab community. It will help …
Digital Literacy Training Session
Digital Woman Uganda (DWU) on behalf of the Digital inclusion COP will be leading in conducting digital literacy training f…
Africa-Europe D4D Hub Multi-Stakeholder Forum
The African Union – European Union (AU-EU) Digital for Development (D4D) Hub is facilitating the first Africa-Europe D4D Hu…
CoP Workshop: Organisational Digitalisation and Management
This hands-on workshop will equip human rights defenders and organizations including community-based organizations, Grass r…
#NextChapter Tweetchat
2021, an eventful year, is coming to its end and we want to celebrate what we have accomplished so far, where we are right …
4th Women HRDs Conference
The Phenomenal Woman: Restoring Hope in Challenging Times
DHRLab 2.0 - the next Chapter
After three years of successful networking, advocacy work and enhancing of human rights structures both for the Ugandan soc…
Digital Education Hackathon
Take part in this gamified learning approach by Digital Woman Uganda, Blue Node Media, Code Impact sponsored by the Europea…
3rd Privacy Symposium Africa
The virtual event with the theme "Data Protection: A New Dawn in Africa" takes place in Kampala from November 3rd - 5th and…
Cyber Policies Protecting Women/Children Online
How can we protect Women and Children hovering the online spaces? Digital Woman Uganda in collaboration with moderator Lind…
Digital Security Conference 2021
Decoding foundational inequalities in a digital era. Empowering Civil Society to Challenge Systemic Exclusion. by Defenders…
National Stakeholder's Conference on OGBV
WOUGNET together with Makerere University will hold a National Stakeholders' Conference on Online Gender-Based Violence. T…
Fact Checking and Verification Workshop
You want to learn how to spot false and misleading information? Acquire skills to verify false information? Join our Fact C…
Linking & Learning Session #4
"Learning Digital security and safety as a non-techie" with discussions centered around the available open source tools on …
Engendering AI - Report Release
Pollicy is releasing the first of the 3-part series: “Engendering AI: A Gender and Ethics Perspective on Artificial Intell…
LETS PLAY! Gaming and Discussions @UN WORLD Data Forum
The Digital Human Rights Lab and Pollicy will host an interactive event that brings together Human Rights Defenders from gr…
Learning Call on Network Disruptions
Sandra Aceng from WOUGNET is guest on this years #FIFAfrica21 session hosted by Global Network Initiative and CIPESA - Tune…
Effects of State Surveillance on Democratic Participation in Africa
Nicholas Opiyo from Chapter Four Uganda is guest on this years #FIFAfrica21 session hosted by CIPESA - Tune in!
Tools for Enhanced Collaboration on Digital Rights Violations and Digital Security in Africa
Phillip Ayzika from Pollicy is guest on this years #FIFAfrica21 session hosted by Pollicy, Paradigm Initiative and CIPESA U…
Afrofeminist Data Futures
Neema Ayer from Pollicy is guest on this years #FIFAfrica21 session hosted by Pollicy and CIPESA Uganda - Tune in!
Unseen Eyes, Unheard Voices: Emerging Data Concerns Arising the Covid-19 Pandemic
Phillip Ayazika from Pollicy is guest on this years #FIFAfrica21 session hosted by Kenya ICT Action Network and CIPESA Ugan…
Status of Digital Rights in Africa: Two years into the Pandemic
Patricia Nyasuna, Program Officer for Gender & ICT Policy Advocacy at WOUGNET is guest on this years #FIFAfrica21 session h…
Understanding Online Violence Against Women and Girls during Covid-19
Phillip Ayazika from Pollicy is guest on this years #FIFAfrica21 session hosted by NamTschuwe Digital and CIPESA Uganda - T…
A Buyer's Guide to Land Purchase
Due diligence and how it will save you from buying "air".
Linking and Learning Session #3
Putting inclusion at the heart of digital spaces feat. the CoP on Digital Inclusion
Cyber Policies Protecting Women/Children
Digital Woman Uganda is hosting a tweetchat/twitter space around Cyber Policies Protecting Women and Children Online on the…
DHRLab Digital Security Training in Gulu
Ben Kerry Mawejje together with DHRLab hosts a Digital Security Training to built capacity within the DHRLab community. Fi…
DHRLab Digital Security Training 2
Lindsey Kukunda and Gole Andrew together with DHRLab host a Digital Security Training to built capacity within the DHRLab c…
Data Respecting Diversity - Stakeholder Forum
Data privacy, CyberLaws, Data Inclusion, Data, data, data... We hear this word thrown around a lot but do you really ta…
Panel Discussion on Succession Law
A discussion between Rhoda Namboze for BarefootLaw, Rebecca Atayo for Landnet and Sandra Aceng for WOUGNET on the current s…
1st DHRLab Digital Security Training
Gole Andrew and Ben Kerry Mawejje together with DHRLab host a Digital Security Training to built capacity within the DHRLab…
Communication for Visibility Training Part 2
In four (4) sessions Tusiime Tutu and guest trainers touch upon topics such as 1) Social Media Management; 2) Interacting w…
Communication for Visibility Training Part I
In four (4) sessions Tusiime Tutu and guest trainers touch upon topics such as 1) Public speaking on- and offline; 2) Writi…
Launch of Cyber Policy Brief: Protecting Women and Children
These webinar sessions will be led by DWU and we will focus on “development of appropriate tools to raise awareness about t…
Online Access to Health Information Advocacy Training
Amara Hub & MN-YEA, will jointly carry out online health advocacy training for 20 health workers to equip them with practic…
Linking and Learning Session
Up next is the Community L&L session led by the CoP on Innovation for Rural Development and this session will feature CoP m…
Mental Health Circle #5
Hello there, it's the Last Mental Health Circles! Thank you for making it this far. We hope these sessions have been help…
Mental Health Circle #4
Hello there, it's the 4th Mental Health Circles! Thank you for your continued interest in the Mental Health Circles. This w…
Community Linking & Learning Session: The Digital Age Amidst a Pandemic: Defending Rights of the Vulnerable
The bi-monthly L&L sessions aim to boost and further intercommunity (CoP) sharing as they embark on a journey of scaling ou…
Mental Health Circle #3
Hello there, it's the Mental Health Circles again! We received tremendous feedback from the second session. And for this …
Mental Health Circles
Are you geared up for this week’s circle? The Associates for Health Rights (AHAR) and DHRLab invite you to participate in t…
Mental Health Circles
The DHRLab together with Associates for Health Rights Limited (AHAR) started "Mental Health Circles", online sessions led b…
The use of tech to advance access to justice in Africa
Join episode three of the TALK 4 LEGAL hosted by @App4Legal and @ALT_legaltech with Christina Dutton, Kelechi Ibe, Anastasi…
DHRLab @ RightsCon
Strategy Session - Digital security and data privacy to tackle OGBV and safeguard women's and children's rights online in U…
Internet Shutdown and Censorship
The Internet Shutdown and Censorship in Uganda Workshop covers topics as "What's TOR and how does TOR anti-censorship work?…
Digital Skills Workshop
The workshop will be an online virtual setting and physical setting at The Innovation Village. The aim is for participants …
DATAFEST KAMPALA - living with data
Under the theme “Living with Data“, this year we examine the integral role that data plays in almost every aspect of our li…
DHRLab Session @ DRIF
DRIF is an important platform where conversations on digital policy in Africa are shaped, policy directions debated and par…
State of Digital Rights & Internet Governance
Unwanted Witness Uganda and DHRLab cordially invite you to attend the launch of a study report whose overall objective was …
Celebrating International Women's Day
Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in a COVID19 World - The Event will enable us to choose the challenge the ma…
Innovation Program Pitch Event Livestream
In a Design Sprint over the last 4 weeks, 10 teams have been working on their ideas to make human rights work in Uganda bet…
CoP Networking Weekend & Pitch Event
This weekend the CoP Leads will come together to elaborate further collaboration among the CoPs as well as exploring synerg…
Safer Internet Day #SID2021 #SaferInternetDay
The Role of the Multistakeholder Model in Promoting a Safer Internet. Hosted by Digital Literacy Initiative (DLI)
Assessing the Legality in the UCC Directive Authorizing Online Content Producer Registration and Broadcasting Services
UCC issued a Public Notice/directive on the 7th Day of September 2020 advising all persons currently offering or planning t…
Innovation Program: Call for Digital Innovations
Do you have an idea, solution or approach to improve human rights work? Apply to our Innovation Program and win up to 60.0…
Innovation Program Info Event No. 2
The Digital Human Rights Lab in cooperation with StartHub Africa has launched a Digital Human Rights Innovation Program to …
Digital Security Capacity Building Workshop for Female Victims/ Survivors of Online Gender-based Violence
Attendance is Free To register contact +256 773 680 547 / +256 705 050 622
Innovation Program Kick-Off
The Digital Human Rights Lab in cooperation with StartHub Africa has launched a Digital Human Rights Innovation Program to …
Tutorial: Intro to Hashtag Campaign Analysis
In this Tutorial Arthur Kakande, Data Products lead at Pollicy, will give an Introduction to Hashtag Campaign Analysis (Bra…
How to protect human rights in the digital age?
Get to know the DHRLab projects. Join us in a tweet chat using the hashtag #DefendingHumanRightsOnlineUG
Tracking social media data,Tracking and understanding social media analytics
Join for a practical session to learn and make sense of social media analytics for online campaigns with Estone Wandera.
IGF - Open data For Women and Persons with disabilities
Open Data is data which is made accessible and available in a standardized machine-readable format and under a license that…
Assessing the Human Rights Situation during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Join the Webinar and learn about experiences from lawyers and human rights defenders. #SafeguardingHRDs
Introduction to data analysis with Stata
Join us for a practical session with Sandra & Bonnita, Research Experts at Pollicy. We introduce the very basics of Stata …
#BeOnlineBeSmart Tweet Chat
"Lets Put the We in Cybersecurity" together with Encrypt Uganda, Internet Society - Uganda Chapter & Digital Literacy Initi…
WOMEN@WEB Event - Online Debate
Learn about a Legal framework with specific focus on the national laws and administrative practices responsive to online vi…
The Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law (KPSRL)
In collaboration with SEMA, we are hosting the panel discussion"Protecting our Justice Data" at the KPSRL annual conference
Closing the Digital Gender Gap in Uganda Webinar
In this webinar we aim to further explore, highlight and interrogate the key issues and findings emanating from the researc…
Digital Data Collection Tutorial
Join us in a hands-on session with Pamela Namala, Data Analysist at SEMA
WOUGNET Event - Women’s Rights Online: Closing the gender gap for a more equal world
Join @WOUGNET on omen’s Rights Online: Closing the gender gap for a more equal world by using the hastags #GenderDigitalDi…
WOUGNET Event: Tackling Gender Based Violence in the Cyber Space
Join us in a tweet chat this week using the hashtags #StopOnlineGBVUG #AskforConsent #FreeToBeOnline
Privacy Symposium 2020
Data and Democracy: Opportunities and Challenges to Digital Rights in Uganda
Zoom-Session: Free practical introduction to information design & data visualization
Join us if you are interested in learning how to transform information or data into visual formats that make it easier to u…
Whatsapp Chat Discussion - Children Safety Online: From a Legal & Cyber Security Lens
Join us to discuss what parents and guardians can do to ensure their children are safe online.
Whatsapp Chat Discussion: Demystifying Pollicy’s Digital Advocacy Toolkit
Join us as we demystify Pollicy's Digital Advocacy Toolkit & explore alternatives to the traditional advocacy campaigns.
Hands On for Digital Security & Safety
Are you interested in learning how to practically secure your identity, assets & technology in the online & mobile world? T…
WhatsApp Chat Discussion: Remote Working Tools
The next chat discussion on Tips & Tools for productive Remote Work. Join us to learn how to learn more about the best prac…
Rights Con Online 2020: Supporting Human Rights Activists in repressive environments
Opportunities for mechanisms to support human rights activists and defenders working in internet and civic repressive envir…
RightsCon Online 2020: Not "revenge" porn
new trends in non-consensual intimate imagery in Uganda and the role of digital security
Disinformation, and Citizens right to be informed
Fake news increasingly influence online media. Therefore, the ability to take responsible and decisive action against false…
A friendly Guide to Data Visualization
We discuss the power of data visualizations when communicating results and persuading audiences. A WhatsApp discussion.
A Guide to Ensuring your Digital Privacy & Security – Whatsapp Chat Discussion
How do we ensure online safety as we embrace social distancing and remote working?
Human Rights and Covid-19 – Webinar
The Webinar will provide an opportunity for many lawyers, human rights actors, and defenders with interest to provoke discu…
Digital Data Collection, Practices and Recommendations – Whatsapp Chat Discussion
Exchange on how best to embrace digital data collection tools in the time of social distancing.
Global Digital Development Forum
Catch the intresting talk of our community members at this year's Global Digital Development Forum.
Corona Contigency Planning – CoP Meeting
A meeting to give the possibility to exchange on solutions for the impact of the Corona Crisis on the various CoP activitie…
CoP Presentation & Collaboration Workshop
The Community of Practice will gather and give intresting insights in their work to identify possible synergies and collabo…
Introduction to the Digital Human Rights Lab
The DHRLab as a physical-visual space wants to bring together the DHR community. Join us at our introduction event to ident…
Supercharge your Advocacy – Preparing your Data Analysis Report
After data collection, what's next? How do you convert your data into actionable insights?
Digital Security Conference (DigiSec)
The Defenders Protection Initiative will explore the influence of the 4th industrial revolution on privacy and security iss…
Supercharge your Advocacy – Research Methods 101
Pollicy invites to give information about how to use data research methods to enhance research and data collection skills.
Cyber Laws in Uganda – CoP Workshop and Report Launch
This workshop will be based on the findings of the Cyber Laws report by BarefootLaw and will train human rights defenders o…
Digital Security Policy Generator – Workshop with Daniel Moßbrucker
The workshop focuses on the threats that come along with digitization and when working with online tools. We will work on…
Kick OFF Workshop Digital Human Rights Lab
At our Kick OFF event we will introduce the Digital Human Rights Lab and launch the project. A first step to the forming o…
Human Rights Protection in the Digital Age – Community Meeting & Stakeholder Mapping
The event will bring togehther different actors of the community. A needs assessment, understanding the overall goal and st…