Countering Online Radicalization in the Age of Disinformation.
By Neema Mujesia, The Rise of Disinformation and Extremism Disinformation has emerged as a pervasive challenge in today’s digital ecosystem, fueling mistrust, societal polarization, and, in extreme cases, radicalization. According to the upcoming 2024 CHRIPS...
Safer Internet Day: A Call for Shared Responsibility
The digital landscape evolves at breakneck speed. Young people are adept at finding ways around any controls on the use of the internet, including parental controls. They often outpace the very parents tasked with safeguarding them from potential cyber threats.
Celebrating Safer Internet Day 2025: Together for a Better Online World
Discover how Kenya is celebrating Safer Internet Day 2025, with a focus on initiatives by Watoto Watch Network to educate children and promote online safety.
Balancing Innovation and Data Sovereignty in Kenya
KICTANet plays a crucial role in shaping Kenya’s data protection landscape, advocating for strong policies and promoting digital inclusion.
From Words to Action: Lexicon for Safer Digital Spaces
In Kenya, technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) has become a growing concern, particularly with the widespread adoption of digital platforms. Women, girls, and persons with disabilities (PWDs) are disproportionately targeted with cyber harassment,...
Kenya Sets Stage for AI Leadership with Landmark AI Convening
The AI Statement of Principles and Africa AI Convening, held in Nairobi, brought together stakeholders to discuss ethical AI development in Kenya. The event focused on key principles like safety, inclusivity, and trustworthiness, and explored Kenya’s role in shaping Africa’s AI future.
Tracking Online Gender-Based Violence in Africa: AI Trolling Dominates Week 1
Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV) is a growing global crisis, with its prevalence rising sharply across Africa. While much of the reporting and research on OGBV focuses on high-profile individuals such as politicians, journalists, and human rights defenders, it’s...
UK Government, KICTANet Empowers Mandera with 150 Computers for Digital Inclusion
Mandera County receives a boost in digital access and literacy, empowering youth, women, PWDs, and senior citizens.
Celebrating Data Privacy: Insights from the Annual Privacy Day Conference 2025
By Valarie Waswa Each year on January 28th, the world comes together to mark International Privacy Day, and Kenya is no exception. This year’s theme, “Safeguarding Personal Data to Spur Digital Transformation and Economic Development,” set the stage for an engaging...
KICTANet’s mission is to promote an enabling environment in the ICT sector that is robust, open, accessible, and rights-based through multistakeholder approaches.
During the 2022 – 2024 strategic period, KICTANet has prioritised the promotion of effective multistakeholder participation; an enabling legal, policy and regulatory environment; building capacities and empowered communities; and institutional strengthening. KICTANet’s guiding philosophy encourages synergies in ICT policy-related activities and initiatives. As such, the network provides mechanisms and a framework for continuing cooperation, engagement and collaboration in ICT matters among industry, technical community, academia, media, development partners, civil society and government.
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Strategic Priority.
- Convening power. To strengthen and promote engagement, collaboration and relationships with relevant stakeholders (state, business and non-state actors).
- Promoting an enabling environment. To catalyse policy, legislative and regulatory reforms in the ICT sector.
- Building capacities and empowered communities. To build the capacity of the stakeholders across government, business society and civil society and the citizens.
- Institutional strengthening.

The report outlines the work undertaken in between 2007 and 2016 which is underpinned by crowd sourcing and community engagement
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