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Storm brews over UCC online and social media registration rules

By Benjamin Rukwengye In March 2018, the governments of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, as if acting in tandem, issued new rules requiring the licensing of social media and online content creators. Tanzania published its Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations, 2018, establishing mandatory licensing of all bloggers, online forums and online radio and television. […]

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How social media [are] transforming Uganda’s political and social landscape

This is a keynote address by Daniel K. Kalinaki, Managing Editor, Regional Projects and Convergence Nation Media Group, delivered at the second annual Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Social Media Conference that took place in Kampala on 19 July 2016. — IN SUMMARY: Social media are transforming the way audiences engage with information, authorities and institutions of traditional power […]

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