Our Digital Security Clinic is open at the 7th Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights, Sheraton Kampala, and the doors are wide open! This morning, @EnabelinUganda Country Director Nicolas Oebel named the exploitation of data among the harms businesses must answer for, and reminded the room that micro and small businesses are part of this conversation too. Customer records, mobile money details and staff data are all human rights issues now. Do you run a business, big or small? Stop by the Exhibition Space and let our team walk you through the Digital Rights Toolkit for Businesses. In just a few minutes, we will help you: ✅ Run a quick digital security self-assessment. ✅ Secure your business accounts with two-factor authentication. ✅ Check how you collect, store and share customer data. ✅ Spot phishing and suspicious links before they cost you. ✅ Understand your obligations under Uganda’s data protection law. Walk in with questions, walk out with a business your customers can trust. #BeeraSharp because your business has eliminated all digital risks. 📍 Exhibition Space, open today and tomorrow #BusinessAndHumanRights #DigitalRights #DataProtection

The session on Technology, Digital Rights and Business and Human Rights put one question on the table: as data, #AI and automation reshape how Ugandan businesses work, who is protecting the people on the other end? Gilbert Ssettuuma, Personal Data Protection Office: “If your data is processed without a human in the loop and the outcome affects your rights, you have recourse with the PDPO. You don’t need a lawyer, just the evidence.” He challenged every business in the room: “Do you have a privacy notice? You are definitely collecting people’s personal data. Without that, you are in breach of the law.” Bonnita @nyamwire , Pollicy: “Even before we get to violations, people don’t understand what is being violated.” In one study, local officials thought “data” meant internet bundles. When Pollicy mapped support services for survivors of online harassment across several regions, they found none. Assoc. Prof. Florence Tushabe, Soroti University: “The digital divide was already wide. AI literacy is compounding it.” On data sovereignty: “You cannot be sovereign when you depend on someone who can switch you on and off.” Her call to businesses: trust local talent. “Buy Uganda, build Uganda.” Yasmin Ahmed, @femtechXlaw : “Digitalisation for businesses in this country is an afterthought.” On age bans for children online: “That is safety by exclusion. A digital product should be safe by design.”

We are at the 7th Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights in Kampala, taking stock of Uganda’s National Action Plan five years on. Speaking for the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development, Asst. Commissioner Equity and Rights, Lydia Nabiryo was clear: adopting a policy is only the beginning. The real measure of success is not what we committed to on paper, but what has actually changed in people’s lives. Through the (Advancing Respect for Human Rights by Businesses in Uganda) ARBHR project with the Ministry, Enabel and the European Union, we have backed CSOs across 12 districts. Find us at the Digital Rights Toolkit clinic, and at our session on Technology, Digital Rights and business rights at 15:30 today. #BusinessAndHumanRights #BeeraSharp