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Moving from Habit to Competence: Why Digital Users Keep Missing the Point in the Digital Age

By Timothy Mwanje – Director at High Intelligence  | Kampala, Uganda In today’s digital society, effective tool usage is not optional; it is foundational to professionalism, rights protection, and organizational resilience. Societies with an extraordinary choice of tools designed to enhance productivity, collaboration, accountability, and access to rights. Yet, unreasonably, individuals and institutions continue to misuse, underutilize, or completely ignore these tools. Unfortunately, many digital tools that are easier, more structured, and more secure remain underused or unpopular. The abandonment of these tools by digital users reflects not technological failure, but limited digital literacy and resistance to structured systems in this digital age. The challenge is no longer access to technology or the internet, but the consistent failure to apply the right digital tools for the right purposes due to limited digital literacy and awareness . This failure has far-reaching ...
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Social Media Misuse and Digital Rights Violations During Uganda’s Political Campaign Season

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By Timothy Mwanje – Director at High Intelligence  | Kampala, Uganda Uganda’s political campaign periods have increasingly become hotspots for online misinformation, harassment , and human rights and privacy violations , further amplified by the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools . While social media empowers citizens to share information rapidly, it has also fuelled a troubling trend of publicly exposing and accusing individuals without authorised verification or due process. This misuse of digital platforms has led to reputational harm, wrongful accusations, public intimidation, and widespread ethical concerns. The images widely circulated on social media platforms such as X/twitter , TikTok, and Facebook illustrate how easily a person’s photo or video can be taken out of context and used to create narratives that may provoke physical violence or mob justice, bypassing lawful processes . On 7th December 2025, a viral incident of an individual named Kankiriho Coleb ...
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Location: Kampala, Uganda
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