(This article was first published in the New Vision on January 11, 2023) Many children are now online. The UN children’s agency estimates that one in three Internet users globally is a child. While the Internet use brings numerous benefits to your child, it is not risk free. Maureen Nakatudde looks at the ways your […]
This article was first published on the New Vision website on April 27, 2023 By Jackie Achan Around 90 per cent of adolescent girls and young women in low-income countries do not use the internet, while their male peers are twice as likely to be online, a new UNICEF report finds. The report issued on […]
By Maureen Nakatudde The first thing Roses Kirabo, 13, does when she wakes up is open her tablet computer. She opens various websites and gets absorbed in digital media. “She wants to be online all the time,” Mary Namuddu, her mother, says. “When I assign her work around the house, she is always hesitant to […]