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Agora and the crisis of digital media

New communication technology-enabled activist journalism needs empirical frameworks of accountability COMMENT | JOSEPH WERE | The recent public flaying of Agather Atuhaire, Godwin Toko and Jimmy Spire Ssentongo should be a top discussion issue for anyone involved in news media. It is discouraging that most discussion so far has centred on …

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The real danger of traffic jam crimes

When no one cares, including the police, petty criminals snatching bags will go on to commit bigger crimes COMMENT | JOSEPH WERE | Okira Ito. Many Ugandans do not know that name. But they need to know it. Okira Ito was a Japanese road traffic flow expert working with Kampala Capital …

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For money, the media allowed to be captured

Now the party appears to be over and the cleaning up of the financing models must start COMMENT | JOSEPH WERE | The National Association of Broadcasters, media managers and experts, the ministries of Finance and that of ICT and National Guidance, are debating whether the government should give its advertising …

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Chance for Ugandans to invest abroad

Why this good news risks being misunderstood as bad news by foreign investors COMMENT | Joseph Were | On February 01, The Independent news magazine’s online edition reported on Standard Chartered Bank Uganda’s launch of an offshore Mutual Funds product. As the Standard Chartered Bank CEO Sanjay Rughani said at the launch, …

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Robinah Nabbanja

  Mobile cash and her changes in PM office Kampala, Uganda | JOSEPH WERE | Debonair. Reticent.   Uganda has recently had two very different prime ministers personality-wise; Amama Mbabazi and Ruhakana Rugunda. It is up to you to tick who of the two was debonair and who was reticent. Now …

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