This is a report of a baseline study on urban data governance in Uganda’s new cities. The study was inspired by the fact that an estimation of 50% of Africa’s population is expected to live in urban centres and/or cities by 2030. Unfortunately, about 62% of those Africans currently living in cities lack quality essential […]
ToroDev boasts of along time partnership (over 10 years) with SPIDER – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing regions, a digital and research center at the Department of Computer & System Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University – Sweden. A number of ICT for development projects have been funded by SPIDER and implemented by ToroDev in […]
Takeaways from our recent engagements with key government agencies in Uganda: During the month of February 2023, ToroDev through the Open Data Analytics (ODA) initiative, embarked on consultations with key stakeholders, primarily government agencies in Uganda to discuss preliminary findings from the Urban Data Governance (DG) baseline study, and their implications for the future of […]
Concentration of Data Governance (DG) Interventions at continental and national levels with a dearth of efforts at sub-national/city level, CSOs efforts in data production not adequately recognized in Uganda’s national data system, Too many stand-alone data systems by MDAs with limited interoperability, Uganda’s new cities need to profile Unique Ninches through dedicated data production strategies,
A Citizens’ Generated Data (CGD) for Uganda Framework was Developed with support from UN Women. This Framework will help CSOs to generate quality data and feed into the national statistical/data system.
Since June 2022, ODA (an initiative of ToroDev and UNIRI) has been involved in studying the current status and future needs of urban data governance in Uganda’s 10 new cities, with support from the Hewlett Foundation. In October 2022, some government agencies/partners (UBOS and MoLG) came on board to support these efforts. This study is […]
Please feel free to join us on July 7th, 2022 during our breakaway session on a research presentation on “A baseline Study on Urban Data Governance in Uganda” during the DataFest Africa 2022 Conference organized by our partner organizaion, POLLICY at the National ICT Innovation Hub, UIICT Kampala. This study is financially supported by the […]
The Hoima City project planning/kick-off workshop for June 15 – 16, 2022 at Miika Eco Resort, was completed successfully. We were able to loop in some city administrators at political and technical levels who gave us insights on what might be the opportunities and challenges ahead as we embark on our baseline study on urban […]
Consistent with our value and culture of maintaining a lean demeanor while administering services of our organization (ToroDev), coupled with our strong belief in the opportunities provided by the digital technologies to our society and other unprecedented challenges the world continues to witness like pandemics, we have are rethinking seriously on reforming our approach to […]
A number of months have passed without hearing from us here, right? Good news is that we have been much active, holed in a deep reflection, framing and re-framing our new focus for the future years. Indeed, for the last 10 years, we have learnt alot from our interventions in the transparency, participation and advocacy […]
