| UCC Website with all the information about COVID-19 initiatives - 23/07/2020 |
| Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Africa | Uganda |
| UCC has developed a webpage consolidating all actions/initiatives implemented as a major hotspot for COVID-19. |
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| GOGP+; The Medicine Smart Phone Application Linking Doctors to Patients - 22/04/2020 |
| GOGP+ Seven Doctors Mobile APP |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | Africa | Uganda |
| In light of the presidential directive grounding public transport and regulating private vehicles to stem the spread of COVID-19, GOGP+, a telemedicine app has been designed to do away with physically visiting a hospital. Telemedicine involves the use of electronic communications and software to provide clinical services to patients remotely without making a physical visit to the hospital, and GOG (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: Mobile Application, Telemedicine, Remote health care |
| EMERGENCY CALL: Digital Solutions to support the fight against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic. - 15/04/2020 |
| MINISTRY OF ICT AND NATIONAL GUIDANCE - UGANDA |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Africa | Uganda |
| Ministry of ICT and National Guidance through the National ICT Initiatives Support Programme (NIISP) has initiated and invited the public to submit proposals for Digital Solutions to support the fight against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic under the following thematic areas: A. Health Systems: 1. Disease testing, treatment and management. 2. Public Health Surveillance and contact tracing. (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: innovation, proposals, Public Service Delivery, Collaborative tools, contact tracing |
| UGANDA COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION LAUNCHES FACT CHECKER - 13/04/2020 |
| UGANDA COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Africa | Uganda |
| Every new technology comes with its advantages and disadvantages, and electronic communication platforms are not an exception. Their tremendous benefits notwithstanding, electronic communication networks have facilitated increased production and sharing of false, offensive and illegal content.In the global fight against the novel COVID-19, a lot of fake and misleading information was being shared (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: Fake news, Fact Checker, content |
| PUBLIC ADVISORY ON THE PURPORTED LINK BETWEEN COVID-19 AND 5G - 09/04/2020 |
| UGANDA COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Africa | Uganda |
| The Commission issued a press statement on "the purported link between COVID-19 and 5G". This was in response to the fake news that was being shared on social media platforms implying that there was a correlation between 5G and the spread of COVID-19. This public advisory highlighted basic fundamental information on the electromagnetic spectrum from which radio waves are part; as well as the non- (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: PUBLIC ADVISORY , 5G, NON-IONIZING, ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM, |
| TEMPORARY AUTHORIZATION OF THE USE OF PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS (BIZINDALO) TO PUBLICISE INFORMATION ON THE COVID-19 - 02/04/2020 |
| UGANDA COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Africa | Uganda |
| In exercise of its mandate in respect of effecting the provisions of the UCC Act 2013 and in collaboration with the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), the Commission had banned the use of open-air loudspeakers or megaphones, also known as bizindalo, to broadcast in Uganda. Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commission noted that whereas the mainstream broadcasting (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: Broadcast, public address systems, bizindalo, temporary authorization |