#SpeakUp: using social media to promote police accountability in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

This report provides important lessons for the police and the public from three East African countries.

Little research has been conducted to assess the impact and potential of social media on the public’s engagement in police accountability in Africa. This report explores whether social media can promote more effective police accountability in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The content of the public’s engagement with the police on social media platforms in these countries is analysed over a two-month period and the impact of this engagement is then examined.

About the author

Romi Sigsworth is a Research Consultant with the Transnational Threats and International Crimes division of the ISS. Prior to this, she was the gender specialist at the ISS and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. She has an MSt in Women’s Studies from the University of Oxford.

Picture: Amelia Broodryk/ISS