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Building Trust, Accountability, and Human Rights in East Africa’s Data Ecosystem

By Esther Njagi, Open Institute and Sharlene Muthuri, Amnesty International Kenya  Amnesty International Kenya (AIK) and Open Institute (OI) have collaborated since 2020 to advance data governance, data protection, and privacy rights across Kenya and the wider region. Our joint work bridges the gap between data for development and data for human rights, demonstrating that…

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Beyond the Brown Envelope: Rebuilding Trust in Kenya’s Media

The brown envelope is quietly reorganising Kenya’s journalism, deciding what stories get told and which ones stay silent. Our recent reflection paper, Between Truth and the Brown Envelope: Rebuilding Kenya’s Narrative Infrastructure by our Executive Director, Al Kags and the Association of Freelance Journalists (AFJ) president Winnie Kamau, unearths cold truths. It says out loud…

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