Web & Social

Dignited has often reported on various projects we believed were soon about to change Ugandans lives for the better, only to be disappointed. Experience is teaching us to be pragmatic in the face of glossy announcements. Case in point, the Uganda government's announcement of Free... Read More

Telegram users up until this point could only delete their own copy of the message history while in normal chat. Only in Telegram's End-to-End Encrypted Secret Chats do we see the self-destruct option that deletes the messages completely from both ends. Not anymore. A Mexican... Read More

The Uganda Parliament passed the Anti-Pornography Bill in 2014, appended with the President's signature to make it into law. The Anti-Pornography Act 2014 instituted a Pornography Control Committee to monitor and enforce the laws. Government allocated Shs. 2.6 billion ($772,000) to kick-start the process, with Shs. 300 million... Read More

Amnesty International technologist Claudio Guarnieri and independent researcher Collin Anderson have added their voices to the growing global mistrust for the widely used system of SMS verification via codes sent by SMS which can easily be accessed by telecom service providers. The researchers talking to Reuters... Read More

Take a deep breath, this will sting a little: In a strange twist of fates, the embattled Windows Phone has yet again been ditched, this time by none other than Microsoft itself. Windows Phone 8, manufactured by Microsoft will no longer be supported by Skype,... Read More

The Postal Corporation of Kenya, or simply Posta Kenya, is using technology as a tool to bolster growth and attract tech-savvy Kenyan youth. A new service, MPost dubbed Posta Mkononi gives Posta clients convenient and affordable postal services via their mobile devices which function as... Read More

First off,  we have written about the Rise of the Bots in a bid to give a backstory into what exactly this new bot phenomenon sweeping chat apps is.  Our intention was to understand the implications of implementing this technology in our everyday life for... Read More

Uber is in Uganda, and it's causing a lot of excitement in the transportation industry. I've already taken my first Uber ride an probably you have too. Uber pricing in particular is one of the great things about the App. Uber charges a lot less... Read More

1. Founded by a University dropout Uber was founded in 2009 in San Francisco as "UberCab" by University of California dropout Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp who is also the founder of StumbleUpon. Uber was Kalanick’s third venture with the first one having gone bankrupt. 2.... Read More