Pollicy

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

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

Our new board had their first sit down in May, and it was exactly the kind of meeting they had hoped for.

Substantive, warm, and full of the kind of thinking that only happens when the right people are in the room.

Get to know the women now steering Pollicy forward 👉🏾
https://t.co/ImYaHo0CAj

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

There is something about seeing a place with your own eyes that no amount of planning can replace.

Our #DataTamashaAfrica26 Chair recently made the trip to Zanzibar, and what was meant to be a site visit turned into something more. A quiet confirmation that this is exactly where #DTA2026 belongs.

Zanzibar has always been a place where people, ideas, history and cultures meet. And this August, we get to add our own chapter to that story. Come and be part of our story. @dLabTz

In-person & virtual registration is still open 👉🏾https://t.co/dNsldMdWXg

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

📍 Happening Today at Park Hyatt Zanzibar!

Our partners @dLabTz are officially launching #DataTamashaAfrica26 with Guest of Honour Hon. Mudrik Ramadhan Soraga, Zanzibar's Minister for ICT and Innovation.

The countdown is real. are you registered yet? 👀
🔗 https://t.co/yQfWEJHEG2

#JengaNaData

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

What started as a simple podcast assignment becomes a deeper inquiry into how #feminist organisations survive, adapt, and reimagine sustainability when major funders walk away.

Mwikali Muoka, our 2025 Grants & Growth Fellow, asks: "Why must organisations constantly reshape their language to fit funding frameworks?"

Read her full reflection: https://t.co/1TQnZtRANB

#FemTech

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

On the International Day for Countering #HateSpeech, we’re reflecting on how online spaces can become unsafe for women who speak, lead, and participate.

Our research found that women politicians in Uganda were 3x more likely to face online harassment than men.

Online violence affects democracy and it affects whose voices are heard.

Explore Amplified Abuse: https://t.co/vC5nfrzIBJ

#NoToHateSpeech

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

📣The Pollicy 2026 Fellowship is now OPEN for applications!

We’re looking for thoughtful, creative, values-aligned people passionate about data, technology & digital rights.

Join our feminist collective for a 6-month paid fellowship and help shape more just digital futures.

Apply 👉🏾 https://t.co/LIvrtDixeF

#PollicyFellowship

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

Registrations for #DataTamashaAfrica26 are now OPEN! 🎉. And the best part? It is completely FREE.

Whether you are a policymaker, activist, technologist, or data enthusiast, this space is for you. Join us in person in Zanzibar or tune in virtually.

Join us in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Visit https://t.co/yQfWEJHEG2 to get your ticket!

#JengaNaData

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

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👉🏾https://t.co/QdsseZqQmB

@VukaHerAfrica @AnnexKemanzi

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

📣 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

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

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 👉🏾https://t.co/E8q94laFFG

#GenderData

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

#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

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

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👉🏾 https://t.co/EMHAwsRazj

#JengaNaData

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

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

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

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

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

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

[Association of Media Women in Kenya @AMWIK]

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.

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝟑𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐲, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔.
https://t.co/lzeQmKmbsB

#DTA2026

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

Our call for submissions for #DataTamshaAfrica2026 in collaboration with @dLabTz is still open till the end of this month.

Wondering if you should apply? Find out below 👇🏾

#JengaNaData

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

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