Uganda Internet Security
Uganda is located in East Africa. It borders Kenya, South Sudan, and the Democratic Rebublic of the Congo. Uganda is a presidential republic, where the President of Uganda is head of state and head of government. The government decides what the rules are. The internet security is very free there and there are limited restrictions. Currently, they are trying to tighten up the internet security.
You may wonder why Uganda would want to tighten up the internet access? Well the answer is simple. Hackers hacked into the prime minister’s website and posted comments supporting gay rights. Which in fact the prime minister did not support at all. Also adding on to that gay marriage was illegal, so it brought up a lot of critisism from the public of Uganda.
In Uganda forty-nine percent of the people want internet access withouot the government involvement. Even though almost half of the people in Uganda don’t want the government to censor things, they are at the bottom of the bottom of the table when it comes to internet access. It says a lot when only half the people want non government access because it shows that the other half want the government to block things that they do not support at all.
In Uganda four point nine million people use the internet, which is about fourteen percent of the population, which is nat as high as other countries. Only fifty six percent of the population are literate. In Uganda there is no internet security found or if found very little. Mainly anti government web sites were band in 2006 by the Uganda Communications Commisions also know as the UCC. There are no blockages by the government except for facebook and twitter in 2011 when opposition groups were mak...
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...ganda does have high speed internet due to Google hepling the Ugandans out. One of the reasons that they use cafes is that only five percent of Uganda has electricity, but if you do have a gererator to produce electicity it would take a lot of money to run it. As well as power outages that limit Ugandans to the use of internet or anything that runs on electicity.
In conclusion, Uganda has made great technological leaps to expand the internet access. Uganda still faces a lot of challenges, but it will change over the next years. Mainly obtaining affordable and reliable internet access to all the people of Uganda. Uganda is a great place and will keep expanding their internet technology.
Works Cited
https://opennet.net/research/profiles/uganda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Uganda-tightens-internet-security-20120817
...lobal: Censorship On The Rise- Freedom House Study Finds More Government Efforts To Curb The Net http://www.itaa.org/isec/pubs/e20007-5.pdf
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