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The Covid19 pandemic has affected Uganda in as much as it has affected many parts of the world. Specifically, in Africa, governments are taking stringent measures to pre-empt the spread through bans on movement and/or public transportation, curfew or even complete lockdowns in some countries.
We call for your innovative ideas to safeguard human rights and its defenders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Online Meeting tools are indispensable in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). They create opportunities for a whole new way of collaborations and organisation around the globe.
Digitalisation can violate human rights through hate speech, fake news and shrinking spaces on the one hand, but it can be a highly efficient tool to reinforce networking and access to information on the other.
In recent years, East African countries such as Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, introduced social media taxes with devastating effects on digital rights of Internet users and freedom of expression in general.
