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Towards Effective Data Governance in Africa: Progress, Initiatives & Challenges
Kampala: Pollicy (2023), iii, 20 pp.
"This desk review report provides an overview of data governance in Africa, exploring policy frameworks, implementation challenges, regional collaborations, capacity building, governmental initiatives, civil society engagement, and academia's role. The continent's increasing reliance on digital syst
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A Dark Place for Women Journalists & Women Human Rights Defenders: Documenting the Experiences of Online Violence in Anglo & Francophone Countries
Internews; Pollicy (2022), 46 pp.
"All respondents had experienced online violence. Misogynistic hate speech, sexists’ comments, body shaming as well as slut shaming was common among the women journalists and WHRDs interviewed. These threats were also extended to their families, friends, relatives and networks. Another frequently
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Encoded Biases & Future Imaginaries
Kampala: Pollicy (2022), iv, 37 pp.
"This paper is the second in a series of three papers that explore the relationship between women in Africa today and Artificial Intelligence. In it, the authors explore the threats and benefits Artificial Intelligence brings to African women in different sectors; what it means to be an African woma
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Pivots, Perseverances & Pleasures
Pollicy (2022), iii, 26 pp.
"This is the final report in Pollicy's three-part series on African Women in AI. Launched in 2021, this project frames analysis of the state of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa through a gender lens by exploring the impact of AI on women. This project emerged out of the need to fill the visibl
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Are We Leaving Anyone Behind? Access & Usage of ICTs and Assistive Technologies by Persons with Disabilities in Uganda
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2020), 23 pp.
Alternate Realities, Alternate Internets: African Feminist Research for a Feminist Internet
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2020), 50 pp.
"For the past decade, internet connectivity has been praised for its potential to close the gender gap in Africa. Among the many benefits of digitalization, digital tools enable groups that are marginalized across the intersections of gender, race, sex, class, religion, ability and nationality to pr
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