Let’s look at how a controversial “social media tax” has impacted Uganda’s digital economy, with a particular focus on SafeBoda – a mobile app with a social mission: to improve the welfare and livelihoods in Africa by empowering people to live safer and healthier lives. WHAT IS SAFEBODA? SafeBoda is …
Let me begin with Blumer’s 1969 (quoted in Crossley 2002:3) definition of what social movements are: Social movements can be viewed as collective enterprises seeking to establish a new order of life. They have their inception in a condition of unrest, and derive their move power on one hand from …
Media is defined as the mean of communication such as radio and television, print publications such as newspaper or magazines and its intent is to reach people in the masses. Still, old media is restrictive in its coverage and was often delayed, and since the internet-age that began in the …
Five4ThePeople is the five of us writing for and about development causes that we are passionate about, in order to raise awareness about individuals or groups that may not have a voice or platform to be heard. We will be focusing our discussions around new media activism, which is often …
