‼️REGISTER FOR DATAFEST AFRICA 2025‼️ Registration for #DFA2025 is now OPEN! (30-31 October) Whether you’re a creative, community organiser, policymaker, activist, technologist, or data enthusiast, this space is for YOU. Register here: datafest.africa

The countdown is real! We are only 30 days away to #DataFestAfrica2025! We’re gearing up for two days of transformative dialogue, powerful connections, and a bold vision for Africa’s data future. See the full lineup here: datafest.africa/agenda/

Strong passwords = stronger protection. 🔑 Every step and safeguard helps women stay visible, safe & powerful online. Play our Digital SafeTea Game today and level up your digital resilience. www.digitalsafetea.com #HerSafeNet #DigitalSafety

With support from the Austrian Development Agency, we’re strengthening the digital resilience of women journalists, WHRDs & women leaders against #TFGBV during elections in Uganda. Last week, we met Safe Places Uganda, who will join our referral pathway & offer subsidized counselling for survivors.

When one woman is silenced, we all lose a voice. With Defenders Protection Initiative, we’re working to: ✨ Equip women leaders with digital safety skills ✨ Empower WHRDs to stand strong against #TFGBV ✨ Build networks of solidarity Because the internet should never be a battlefield. #HerSafeNet

#TFGBV is violence and must be treated as a crime. is violence and must be treated as a crime. We're calling for #TFGBV to be included in Uganda’s 2024 Sexual Offences Bill, because every woman deserves legal protection from online harms. Read more → pollicy.org/resource/tfg... #HerSafeNet

A safe & joyful internet is one where women, girls and marginalised communities can participate without fear.” – Bonaventure, Pollicy As we continue to roll out our Strategic Plan 2024–2027, we’re sharing team reflections on what it means in practice. Listen in👇🏾 #DigitalSafety #HerSafeNet

This week, we are hosting the first #DataLadies Training aimed at empowering girls (15–18 yrs) with STEM skills through mentorship & hands-on learning. Today Marked #Day1 and the participants explored Digital Safety & Security + Intro to Python. #Digitalsafety #STEMeducation

🇨🇲 What does Cameroon’s new Law 2024/017 mean for personal data protection? From consent to cross-border data flows, we break down the key features of this legislation—and what it signals for digital rights in Central Africa. 🔍 Dive into the blog: pollicy.medium.com/key-features...

📢Want to help bring #DataFestAfrica2025 to life? We’re looking for: ✔️ Rapporteurs ✔️ Event Onsite Ticketing & Registration ✔️ Branding & printing ✔️ Video Coverage & Photography ✔️ Language Interpreters 📅 Deadline: August 18th 2025 Apply here 👉🏾 forms.gle/SGWqxmmVDZSj...

📢 Our new Strategic Plan (2024–2027) is here! Bold. Feminist. Data-powered. Africa-first. 🌍 For the next three years, we’re doubling down on our feminist tech, digital rights, and justice-driven data work across Africa like never before. 👉🏾 Dive in: bit.ly/PollicyStrateg…

Ep. 9 of Resist, Persist & Reimagine podcast by @colmenafund.bsky.social is LIVE! Our Director of Research, Bonnita Nyamwire talks about how #TFGBV is pushing women out of politics, and what civil society must do to fight back. Listen in👇🏾 open.spotify.com/episode/4pSz...

🚀 Our 2024 Annual Report is here! From research to partnerships, events, and transformative impact across Africa’s #data landscape, 2024 was anything but ordinary. Dive into the reflections & feminist data future we’re building. ➡️ bit.ly/PollicyAnnualR…#PollicyAnnualReportr#FeministTechch

📢Calling all change-makers, creatives & community builders! Pollicy’s 2025 Fellowship applications are OPEN! We're looking for 3 dynamic fellows to join us. ✔️ Francophone Community Engagement Fellow ✔️ Grants & Growth Fellow ✔️ Games Design Fellow Apply here 👉🏾 pollicy.org/wp-content/u...

📢#DataFestAfrica2025 Call for Sessions is NOW OPEN! Have a bold idea that challenges extractive tech and inspires change in communities? We’re inviting YOU to submit bold and powerful sessions at #DFA2025. Submit your proposal today 👉🏾 bit.ly/CallForSessi...

This year, we're taking back the narrative and “Reclaiming our Data Futures”. Get ready for bold conversations, ideas around data, tech and everything in between! #DFA2025 Stay tuned for updates.

This week, the Pollicy team is taking a mindful pause for Mental Health Week. We're resting, recharging, and prioritising wellness so we can keep showing up boldly in the work we do. 💛 See you on the other side, refreshed and ready! 🌿

📢Africa, it’s TIME! The biggest #data event is back! Save the date! October 30 -31, in Kampala, Uganda! More updates to come! #DFA25 #DataFestAfrica2025

Earlier this month, the #ILC2025 set the stage for a new global standard on decent work in the #platformeconomy We're bring the conversation closer to home. Join our webinar as we reflect, realign, & take action on regional priorities Register: shorturl.at/SZqYQ 🗓️ 3rd July | 🕑 2PM EAT | #ILO113

Only 4 more days left till the survey closes! Be the voice that helps shape gendered #datagovernance policy in Africa. Take the survey: 🔗 EN: bit.ly/GenderedPoli... 🔗 FR: bit.ly/EnqueteGenre The survey closes on Monday 30th June 2025!

Are you at the #IGF2025? Join our sessions on #WSIS20, #communitynetworks, #digitalgovernance #DigitalJusticeNow and more 👇 www.apc.org/en/apc-igf-2... - with @pollicy.bsky.social @7amleh.bsky.social @itforchange.bsky.social and more:

Our Rethinking Digitisation Toolkit is shifting how policymakers in Kenya & beyond approach #digitaltransformation. We must centre equity, inclusion, & feminist values. #Digitalgovernance only works when everyone can log in. Read more👇🏾 www.opengovpartnership.org/stories/five...

Yesterday marked day 0 at #IGF2025 & our founder Neema Iyer shared research from Pollicy on #TFGBV against women in Africa. ✔️ 1 in 3 women face #TFGBV & many delete their accounts, not because they want to, but because they feel they have to. @thesvri.bsky.social @dgateway.bsky.social

🚀 We’re #IGF2025 bound! Catch us in Oslo, Norway from 23–27 June for a week of action-packed insights on AI, digital governance, digital safety & cooperation, under the overarching theme “Building Digital Governance Together”. 💪🏾 📍Attending? Be sure to explore our sessions and see you there.

🗣️ We want to hear from you! The Gendered Data Governance Survey is now available in French! Your voice will help shape a regional model handbook and toolkit to support AU Member States. 📅 Open till 30 June 🔗 EN: bit.ly/GenderedPolicy… 🔗 FR: bit.ly/EnqueteGenre#GenderDatat#DataGovernancece

Attending #IGFNorway2025? Say hi to DG’s Deputy Director of Programs, Tom Orell, & join us on June 23, from 4pm-5:30pm (GMT+2) on the Open Stage for our networking event co-hosted with @thesvri.bsky.social & @pollicy.bsky.social! The session focuses on strengthening global online safety communities.

🎙️ #CounteringHateSpeech Day is a reminder that hate speech results not only in direct violence and harassment, but also in self-censorship and trauma. We dug more into this in our 'Alternate Realities, Alternate Internets' report. 👉 pollicy.org/research/alter…#EndHateSpeechc#DigitalRightst#OGBVBV

In a recent Radio One feature from the #FairDigitalKazi Breakfast Dialogue, Bonnita Nyamwire highlights the urgent need to recognise and protect Uganda’s platform workers. Listen In 👇🏾

Our Executive Director, Irene Mwendwa, joined leaders in Hamburg last week to speak on AI, disinformation & data justice in the Global South. We proudly endorsed the #HamburgDeclaration on #ResponsibleAI for the #SDGs, because ethical tech must be inclusive & accountable. @undp.org #HSC25

📢 Join us at IFG Norway 2025! We’re co-hosting a networking event on 23 June at 4PM with @thesvri.bsky.social & @dgateway.bsky.social to explore building global online safety communities. #TFGBV work is growing—but efforts remain fragmented & underfunded. Don't miss out!

Yesterday, we brought together unions, MPs and digital worker reps to share the #FairDigitalKazi Manifesto and push for fair digital work in Uganda. With 113th International Labour Conference on the horizon, we discussed legal gaps, policy priorities & national commitments.

🚨 Have your say! 🚨 We're gathering insights to help develop a Model Handbook & Toolkit for AU Member States on inclusive, gender-responsive data governance, and your input will directly help shape it. 🗓 Closes 30th June, 2025 👉 Take the survey: bit.ly/GenderedDataPolicy

The reality for many tech workers is that an algorithm decides when they work, how much they earn, and whether they stay on the platform. There’s no transparency. No way to challenge decisions. Invisible control is still control. And Africa’s tech workers deserve better. #FairDigitalKazi

📢 The #DataFestAfrica2024 Report is now LIVE! Nearly 1,000 participants. 3 tracks. 1 shared mission — harnessing data & technology for Africa’s transformation. Explore the key outcomes, bold ideas & powerful lessons that emerged. 👉 Dive in: pollicy.org/resource/202... #DFA24

The Fair Digital Kazi Manifesto is live! A bold blueprint for dignity, safety, and justice in Africa’s digital economy. We’re advocating for fair treatment for tech workers in #Africa. #FairDigitalKazi Read it 👉🏾https://pollicy.org/resource/fair-digital-kazi-manifesto/

Tech workers are bound by contracts they don’t fully understand, often written in complex legal terms. Without clear, understandable, and accessible agreements, there’s no room for fairness or accountability. Fair work starts with contract transparency. #DigitalLabour #FairDigitalKazi

What drives us at Pollicy? 🌍 It’s the passion for building a strong data culture, influencing better data use across sectors and championing digital rights for all. ✊🏾 🎥 Watch our team tell the Pollicy story: youtu.be/ex6a8o8EVJk?si…#CivicTechc#DigitalRightst#Pollicyc#Datata

The digital economy is booming in Kenya & Uganda, but are women being left behind? Let’s unpack the gendered realities of tech work in Uganda. Learn more👇🏾 pollicy.org/projects/fai... #FairDigitalKazi

The digital economy in Kenya & Uganda is growing rapidly. From ride-hailers to data labellers, all workers are essential to the digital world. But they lack the protections they deserve. Join us as we shine a light on these issues & demand proper protections. #FairDigitalKazi #DigitalEconomy

👩🏽‍💻 It’s #GirlsInICT Day! We’re celebrating every girl daring to learn, build & lead in digital spaces. From our Afrofeminist Internet Scorecard to our interactive Digital Safetea game (digitalsafetea.com), we’re working to ensure girls aren't just online, but safe & empowered. #DigitalEmpowerment

📍 Live from Zambia! This week, Pollicy in partnership with GIZ is hosting an in- person Capacity-Building & Stakeholder Consultation Workshop on gender-transforming #DataGovernance Today’s big question: How are citizens engaged in data governance in your country? #InclusiveTech #GenderData

The internet should be a place for connection & opportunity but for many women, it’s one of harassment . From cyberbullying to weak digital protections, online threats are pushing women out of spaces that matter. Learn more 👉🏾 pollicy.org/resource/amp... #FutureOfWork

🗞️ This International #FactCheckingDay is a reminder that not everything we read online is true. Test your ability to spot #Misinformation with our interactive game, Choose Your Own Fake News & make the right choice in the face of fake news. Play 👇🏾 chooseyourownfakenews.com

"Our project with #ColmenaFund is about advancing women's political leadership by tackling online violence and creating safe, empowering spaces for them." 👩🏽‍💻✨ 🎙Learn more about the importance of this initiative from Varaidzo Magodo-Matimba, Program Manager at @pollicy.bsky.social. #ColmenaForChange

With quickfire inputs from Bobina Zulfa of @pollicy.bsky.social on “AI governance for who? critique & situating African voice in continental AI vision & plans” and Sebastian Calderón of @i4policy.bsky.social on ‘Visions for Global Dialogue on AI", plus... @pollicy.bsky.social

📢 All roads lead to Nairobi! The @opengovpartnership.org Africa & Middle East Regional Meeting is all about rebuilding trust in digital governance. At Pollicy, we’re bringing insights from our report & toolkit to advocate for citizen-centric digital policies. 🗓️ 25 -27 March 2025 #OGPAfrica

Women are still underrepresented in #Africa’s data governance policies. How do we close the gap? Join our webinar tomorrow with Niyel as we explore gender-inclusive #datagovernance. 🗓️ Thursday, March 20 | 3:00 PM EAT Register now 👉🏾 rb.gy/9q7ffr

"When I think of #Technology, I think empowerment." - Martha Nansubuga 💡 Hear how Martha from Uganda is harnessing digital tools to empower other women, and join us in celebrating her this #WomensHistoryMonth for pushing the boundaries. ✊🏽 #WomenInTech #DigitalEmpowerment

Join us to reimagine AI through feminist and intersectional perspectives 👇 - with @pollicy.bsky.social @derechosdigitales.bsky.social @itforchange.bsky.social @womenatthetable.bsky.social and more: s.apc.org/NqUfyp #AIforSocialEquality #CSW69

We celebrate women like Maryam Wangeshi, an architect & #womanintech from Kenya harnessing data from air quality sensors to advocate for cleaner cities. 🌍 🔊 Sound on to hear her biggest takeaway from working with technology. #WomensHistoryMonth #IWD2025