@PollicyOrg

Working at the intersection of Data, Design and Technology #DataFeminism #CivicTech #DigitalRights. Let's chat!

 Kampala, Uganda
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Joined October 2016
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At Pollicy, we use empirical evidence and data from our research to inform data policies that affect women, girls and marginalised groups. And as Nanjala Nyabola put it at #DataTamashaAfrica26, when we start with the lived realities of African women, we start to ask questions that make our theories richer and shape the data reality we want to build and live in. #ASafeandJoyfulInternet
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We've heard the stories. Now we bring the evidence. We close the 'Who Funds Women's Innovation' podcast with @NavinaJus, unpacking what research really says about funding feminist organisations across East Africa. The #data has caught up. The question is: have the funders, and will the data shape our next course of action? 🎧 Tune in…. open.spotify.com/episode/3RW… #FemTechFunding
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Digital safety is more than technical hygiene; it's collective care and political accountability. Join us tomorrow, together with @article19wafric, for Session II of Afro-feminist Approaches for Safer Digital Spaces! What you'll learn: ✨ Trauma-informed digital activism & care ✨ Collective protection mechanisms ✨ Mapping surveillance & platform power Format: Virtual on Zoom. Register here 👉🏾 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi… #HerSafeNet #OnlineSafety #DigitalRights
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In Gulu, a group of women didn't just learn about digital safety. They lived it, acting out real scenarios together. This video takes you inside Safety for Voices, our initiative strengthening digital safety and collective protection for Women Human Rights Defenders and Women in Politics across Uganda. Watch 👇🏾 #OnlineSafety #Safety4Voices
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𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟒 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 🎉 Mwikali Muoka sits down with Maída Hernández⚡ (she/her), Advisor for Digital and Green Innovation in Africa at @giz_gmbh, to look at funding from the funders side perspective. They talk through how funders weigh one urgent idea against another, what actually makes an innovation "investment-ready," and the weight that comes with deciding whose vision gets to move forward. 🎧 Listen in: open.spotify.com/episode/3Lr… “The programme Society. Equality. Africa – the Transformation (SEA-T) collaborates with local and regional civil society actors in Africa in advancing social transformation and civic participation to reduce gender inequalities and reshape unequal power relations. Based on the respect for their grounded and long-standing expertise, autonomy and the right of initiative of its partner organizations, SEA-T offers financial and technical assistance, fosters regional exchange, and strengthens advocacy efforts. The programme is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.”
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Three weeks ago we were in Zanzibar for #DataTamashaAfrica26. We are still processing the outcomes of the 3 impactful days! Kicking off a series of reflections and quotes from the festival, starting with this one from our ED Neema Iyer. Because the best ideas do not happen in isolation. They happen in rooms like the one we built in Zanzibar. That is what we keeps showing up to create. #DTA2026
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Being a feminist online in Africa comes with a cost. Burnout from harassment. Second-guessing every post. Choosing silence because speaking feels too risky. Session II of our Afro-feminist Digital Safety Masterclass with @article19wafric tackles trauma, care, and platform surveillance. Join us for this eyeopening session! 🗓️ Wed, Sept 23rd ⏰ 2-5PM EAT 📍Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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A few weeks ago, our team was in Porto-Novo and Cotonou, Benin for the West Africa Feminist Data Summit 2026. Three days with feminist activists, data journalists, civic technologists, and women human rights defenders from across the region. Here are some reflections from @AnnexKemanzi, who represented Pollicy at the summit Understanding across Africa isn't just a language problem. Colonial rule left behind different systems of education, law, administration, and governance in Francophone, Anglophone, and Lusophone countries. Those systems never disappeared. They still shape how communities organize and how people relate to data today. In Cotonou, where internet access is limited, the data conversations weren't about platforms or dashboards. They were about lived experience and community documentation. Digital inclusion means nothing if we're not accounting for the realities people actually live in. 📖 Read the full article: medium.com/@pollicy/the-west… #FemDataSummit2026
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Pollicy retweeted
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From an ambitious idea to an unforgettable reality! This was made possible by the incredible hard work of @dlabtz and @pollicyorg, backed by the fantastic support of @mawasiliano_smz Get ready for the  next #datatamasha #JengaNaData #Data4Action #datarevolution #Data4Change
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The Afrofeminist Data Museum at #DataTamashaAfrica26 opened with a question. "What if data did not begin with a number? What if it began with a woman remembering?" Curated by Kikomeko Gerald Puto under the theme "We Are the Infrastructure." #JengaNaData
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The exhibition lived inside an old water structure at Hotel Verde Zanzibar. A structure built to hold water became a vessel for memory. Inside it, knowledge showed up in every form. Photographs, audio, video, literature, digital archives, collages on walls & more. #AfrofeministDataMuseum
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A poem by Ruth Jebet Rotich stood out. In the opening line she says "I am not a data point. I am the whole digital infrastructure." and that resonated with the very goals of this year's festival. The Museum invited participants to remember. Before there was a database, there was someone who refused to forget. Before there was a network, there was a community. #DTA2026
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What does it take to lead a feminist organisation through seasons of uncertainty? 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟑 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. Mwikali Muoka sits down with Neema Iyer, Executive Director of Pollicy, for a conversation about FemTech funding, the ideas that shape Pollicy's programmes, and what she's learned building an institution that lasts. They talk through what it really takes to keep a feminist organisation alive as funding cycles shift, and how leaders keep their ambition intact when the resources don't match it. 🎧 Listen in open.spotify.com/episode/30H…
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Day 2 at SOR4D 2026, Bern: @BonaventureSK presented our 2nd paper, "Mapping the Platform Labour Care Work in Kenya" Some of our findings: Housekeeper, nanny, driver, caregiver, cook, general domestic worker. Job titles for platform care work blur into each other, with no shared definition of what each one means.
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We identified 5 types of platform care work, from casual gigs with zero contract to formal homecare backed by social security. Each comes with its own worker profile, and its own level of protection or lack of it.
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Of the workers we surveyed, 68% have only a primary education and reach these platforms only through a broker. We're using this data to push for better working conditions for domestic, tech and agricultural workers in Kenya. #PlatformLabour
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What does resilience actually look like for a platform worker in Kenya? That question sat at the center of Day 1 at the SOR4D Solution-oriented Research for Development conference 2026 in Bern, where we are presenting findings from our ongoing transdisciplinary research, "How Digital Spaces Foster Empowering, Gender-transformative Employment Policies and Women's Mobilisation in Kenya." 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲: Resilience is not just about adapting. It is about whether workers gain more real choices. More on day 2 to come!
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Pollicy retweeted
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Ten days later, and we're still riding the wave of this incredible energy! #datatamashaafrica2026 community is unmatched. Don’t miss the next #datatamasha #Data4Action #datarevolution #Data4Change
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We're back from our little break after the festivities of #DataTamashaAfrica26 (more on this to come). We'd love to share an important update: Over 1500 people applied for four spots in this year's Pollicy Fellowship across four different roles! We're extremely overwhelmed and humbled by the interest from across the continent and beyond. It's proof of how many people out there want to be part of what we're building. We've now completed the shortlist and our four fellows have been notified. While we endeavour to reach out to all applicants, if you haven't yet received email communication from us, this means that your application wasn't successful this time round. We put out a call yearly, so this isn't goodbye. We hope to see your name in our applications again next year!
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