‘Digital Safe Tea’, a brainchild of Ugandan based civic technology company Pollicy, has won a global UNESCO-Netexplo award.
The interactive fiction game on digital safety, designed for women, was one of the 10 recipients of the 2022 Global Science and Technology Innovation awards at this year’s edition of the UNESCO-Netexplo Innovation Forum that took place on April 13, 2022, in Paris, France.
According to the award organizers, the awards were given to the 10 most inspiring, powerful and surprising innovations in the past year that may change our future.
‘Thrilled to announce that we are 1 of 10 UNESCO-Netexplo Innovation Award winners for 2022 for our interactive fiction game on digital safety, chosen out of a pool of 3000!’ Pollicy announced on Twitter.
‘Digital Safe Tea’ is an online game that helps African women deal with social media abuse. The “choose your own adventure” format helps players navigate situations like doxing, phishing, online dating scams, revenge porn and cyber-stalking. The game can be played in English, Luganda, Swahili or French.
Netexplo is an independent observatory that studies the impact of digital technology on society and business. A UNESCO partner since 2011, every year, the Netexplo Observatory selects the 10 most outstanding innovations out of a global pool of 3,000, who represent the trend of digital innovation and will profoundly reshape our future.
Founded by Neema Iyer, Pollicy is a feminist collective of technologists, data scientists, creatives and academics working at the intersection of data, design and technology to craft better life experiences by harnessing improved data.
The organization’s work focuses on influencing a culture of responsible data use, promoting appropriate data governance practices, and advocating for policies that support an enabling data ecosystem.
