What is the ICT for Democracy Network
The ICT4Democracy in East Africa Network is premised on the recognition that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enhances communication and the right to freedom of expression, as well as the right to seek, receive and impart information. In this respect, ICT has the potential to increase citizens’ participation in decision-making processes, thus strengthening democratisation.
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Workshop on Mobile Democracy in East Africa
February 28, 2012, New Delhi, India The ICT4Democracy in East Africa Network will hold a stakeholder workshop on mobile phone enabled democracy at the 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication for Development (M4D2012). The workshop will showcase innovative cases from East Africa. Organisations and individuals interested in the role of mobile phones in democracy are [...]
ICT for Democracy in East Africa: January 2012 News
SMS for Human Rights In addition to Lindi, Mwanza and Iringa regions, the Tanzanian Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance (CHRAGG) extended its field studies to gather user requirements to Dar es Salaam. With a clearer indication of what citizens want, the Commission has now started work toward the system requirements and features design [...]
ICT for Democracy in East Africa: November News
SMS for Human Rights The Tanzanian Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance (CHRAGG) in November started field studies to gather user requirements. Conducted through questionnaires and interviews, the survey was undertaken in the Mwanza, Lindi and Iringa regions. The results of the study, which will go toward the features design of the mobile phone [...]
ICT for Democracy in East Africa: October News
SMS for Human Rights The Tanzanian Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance (CHRAGG) is due to undertake field studies to gather user requirements this November. The results of the study will go toward the features design of the mobile phone based Complaints Handling Management Information System. Catalysing Civic Participation and Democracy Monitoring Using ICTS [...]
Governance Workshop at iHub Research
iHub Research hosted a governance workshop on Thursday, October 27th, 2011, bringing together governance stakeholders from academia, government, civil society and the technology community. The purpose of the workshop was to identify important issues within Kenyan governance structures, especially looking at different stakeholder roles and relationships. The workshop also explored areas where technology may be [...]
ICT for Democracy in East Africa: Project Update
Launched in May 2011, ICT for Democracy in East Africa (ICT4DemEA) is a network of organisations undertaking collaborative projects where Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is used in various ways to promote transparency, accountability and democracy. The network, with seed funding from the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (Spider) comprises of organisations in [...]
ICT4Democracy in East Africa’ Project Launched
This article was published by the Swedish Programme on ICTs for Developing regions (SPIDER) on June 28, 2011, about the ICT4Democracy in East Africa project, which brings together various partners in the region. Recently, we have seen a number of projects, pilots and tools where ICT is used in various ways to promote democracy. Many [...]
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A Greater Calling
It was yet another beautiful day after heavy downfall, the question ringing in Simon’s mind was whether or not he could go for health center visits; imagining the road condition, from nowhere he found strength to move and visit health centers; it was 9:00am that he reached Amach health center IV in Northern Uganda, however [...]
Incompetence of Support Staff (Porters & Watchmen) at health centers
Transparency International Uganda Porters and watchmen are employed at each health center in Uganda by Ministry of health. Porters are tasked to keep and maintain hygiene of surroundings of their respective health centers. Noticeably these support staff are recruited from the same locality of the health centers, none of them has ever experienced transfers. It [...]
Empowering communities through ICT to demand for better health service delivery
Transparency International Uganda (TIU) is empowering communities in Northern Uganda to demand for better health service delivery, Oyam and Lira districts are the project implementation area; a total of 6 sub counties were selected out of the 24 sub counties in the two districts. After nearly five years of insurgency in Northern Uganda, health care [...]
M-Governance Exploratory Survey
After a comprehensive literature review and an informative workshop conducted last month (October 2011), the iHub Research team ventured into the field to find out whether wananchi’s (Swahili for citizens) reality on the ground matched the theory and rhetoric. The team conducted a brief exploratory survey from November 1st – 4th, 2011. The survey was [...]
Launch of the Information Economy Report 2011 in Uganda
What role are Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) playing in enabling private sector development in developing countries? And what are countries in Africa and other developing regions doing to enable ICT play a greater catalysing role in national development? These were some of the questions discussed at the launch in Kampala of the Information Economy [...]
Gender, youth and digital democratic processes in East Africa
The Arab Spring has demonstrated a couple of things namely the power and importance of social media, the ability for technology to unite crowds of people in the shortest amount of time no matter the location, and the increased blurriness between the local and global entities with the use of tools like Twitter and Facebook. [...]
How ICT Could Drive Open Government in Africa
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) could be a key enabler of open government in Africa, in the wake of the September 20, 2011 launch of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a multilateral initiative that aims “to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance”. [...]
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