Established in Canada in 2002, Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) is an innovator in enabling people to access and apply information and communication technologies (ICT) to create education, economic and entrepreneurial opportunities.

DOT’s vision is to make these opportunities available to marginalized people, especially women and youth, as a strategy to eradicate poverty, vulnerability and gender inequality.

DOT’s signature entrepreneurship program, Reach Up! Integrates ICT,…

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For the last few months, I have been privileged to be part of a project that is engaging young people with creative media skills.



The Project titled Create With a Purpose is being supported by Adobe Foundation and TakingITGlobal. • As a Youth Educator on this project, I empower young people between the ages of 13 – 18 years (through the use of a collection of resources that facilitate the inclusion of global perspectives in the classroom like environment) to think and act as world…

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Ugandans can now check their voting status via their mobile phones at a cheap cost across all networks thanks to the new Electoral Commission service.

The simple sms sent to 8683 will avail the recipient all details about their voting status as indicted in the voters’ register like polling station, district, sub-county and county.

The Electoral Commission (EC) chairman, Dr Badru Kiggundu launched the service which cuts across all mobile phone networks in Kampala…

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In May 2010, Facebook, a social networking site, finally launched facebook zero in 10 African countries and at the look of things, after an exact period of 6 month, this service is doing pretty well.

Facebook zero offers telecom subscribers a chance to access their facebook profiles on their mobile phones for free



In Uganda, most telecom companies (MTN, Warid and Orange) have partnered with Facebook to offer this as a value added service for their clients.



Users on… Continue

Nigeria - The Federal Government has approved the setting up of a Computer Crime Prosecution Unit (CCPU) for prosecuting those involved in cyber crimes.



Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN) gave the approval, according to a statement issued by the ministry. He said cyber crimes cannot be prosecuted successfully without adequate capacity and necessary structure.



"Nigeria needs to have a robust cyber security and cyber… Continue