Technology and the Internet as a whole can be a great enabler for women and girls, but a lack of opportunities, skills, and a fear of online discrimination prevents many women from leveraging digital tools to improve their health, advance their education, or find employment. This blog will build on …
This blog post will focus on an event I attended (virtually, of course) on October 8, 2020. As a Canadian female with an educational background and avid interest in foreign policy, my attention was immediately drawn to this event, aptly named “Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy: Past, Present, Future”. I recognize …
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 …
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 …
