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Meet the WhatsApper – What brings the activist in the South to WhatsApp politics?

Danie October 18, 2020 April 19, 2024

What comes to mind when you think of a WhatsApp group? Yet another app for hanging out as family, school friends or perhaps for planning a surprise party on the occasion of yet another cousin’s 50th birthday? Has it occasionally felt as though the app had become a tool for advancing …

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How Uganda’s digital economy is being threatened by government censorship

Sorina October 1, 2020 April 19, 2024

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 …

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