16 women Local Council leaders walked into a training room in Wakiso thinking about WhatsApp as a social app. They walked out asking how to use it to mobilise their communities. That is what a safe and joyful internet looks like in practice. Read more👉🏾pollicy.medium.com/women-loc… @VukaHerAfrica @AnnexKemanzi

📣 We are officially 70 days away from #DataTamashaAfrica26! This August, Zanzibar becomes the place where Africa's builders, thinkers, creatives, and community leaders share the same room and show the world what Building with Data looks like in practice. 🗓️ 19 - 21 August 2026 Registration is FREE and opens next week. Keep your eyes peeled. #JengaNaData

Africa's #data systems are expanding fast. But if women aren't shaping them, we're just reproducing old inequalities in new digital forms. @nyamwire breaks it all down in this blog 👉🏾bit.ly/4vB0UFn #GenderData

#DataTamashaAfrica26 cannot come full circle without the Afrofeminist Data Museum, returning for it's third edition. And we are bringing back the dream team @vodoarts to make it happen. Some things you have to experience for yourself & this is one of them. 🎟️ Registration opens soon. #JengaNaData #DataMuseum

Last call for submissions for #DataTamashaAfrica26 close 31st May. Sessions. Demos. Creative outputs. If your idea has been sitting in your drafts, don't forget to send it in. Now is the time👉🏾 datafest.africa/call-for-ses… #JengaNaData

Next up on our #DataTamashaAfrica26 curators list, meet Chilufya Theresa Mulenga, Founder of Women in Data Science and AI Zambia. She has been building the community that makes the difference and now she is bringing that energy to Zanzibar. 👏🏾 #JengaNaData

16 women leaders in Kasangati showed up, learned, and led. Last week, we partnered with @VukaHerAfrica to run a #digitalliteracy and safety training in Luganda because most online spaces are built in English, and that shouldn't be a barrier to women's participation. #WomenInLeadership

Next up on our #DataTamashaAfrica26 curators list is @valarie_waswa. She is bringing legal grounding and policy depth to #DataTamashaAfrica26, rooting AI governance conversations in lived realities and feminist ways of building technology. #JengaNaData #DTA2026

The @AMWIK State of Women in Media in Kenya Report 2026, exposes a systemic leaky pipeline driven by deep structural inequalities, economic insecurity, and safety threats. Despite strong educational qualifications, women journalists face a steep glass ceiling, making up a only 2.8% of media owners and 3.7% of managing editors. This lack of leadership is coupled with job instability, where nearly 60% of women operate in vulnerable freelancing, internship, or correspondent roles, and fewer than 14% secure permanent employment.

The people helping us shape #DataTamashaAfrica26 behind the scenes deserve their flowers. Meet Norman Angel, Co-Founder of @sautidatalab who is helping us design, shape, and bring #DTA2026 closer to the people building Africa's data future. #JengaNaData

We have formally submitted our Internet Shutdown Report and a formal complaint to @UHRC_UGANDA, requesting an investigation and determination on the human rights violations arising from the internet shutdown. We look forward to continued engagement and constructive dialogue on protecting digital rights and freedoms.

We are sooo back! 🔥 Zanzibar, 19-21 August 2026 with @dLabTz Building with Data / Kujenga na Data. Call for session submissions is still on. Submit yours 👉🏾: datafest.africa/call-for-ses… #DataTamashaAfrica26 #JengaNaData

Behind every research, project, or program is this team. And once in a while, we make room for play. Last Thursday was a paint and sip. Music, insightful life conversations and cake for our April babies. Play is a form of rest. The inner child in all of us deserves a turn too.

Our Games fellow, Kamogelo Makhoba, is heading to the Game-On Symposium hosted by @Heltasa01 next week to talk about using games for digital and data literacy and the impact this work has on communities. At Pollicy, games are one of our favourite ways to make research tangible and accessible to the communities we serve, and Kamogelo's work is a perfect example of that in action. #GameOn

We're hiring a Website Developer.👩🏾‍💻 Over 2–4 months, you'll design and develop a website that communicates who we are and intentionally showcases our research, programmes and community resources. If you build with care and you love to challenge the status quo, don't miss out on the opportunity to apply! 👉🏾 Apply here: pollicy.org/events/terms-of-…