Bonaventure Saturday
Research Manager, Pollicy
Kampala, Uganda
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Bonaventure Saturday is a researcher and project manager with over ten years of experience in digital rights, gender justice, and civic engagement in Africa, with a particular focus on online safety for women in public life, technology facilitated gender based violence, data governance, and feminist digital inclusion. He has extensive experience in managing and evaluating donor funded programmes, conducting needs assessments and policy relevant research, and engaging multi stakeholder actors across civil society, government, academia, and the private sector. As a feminist digital rights advocate, he contributes evidence based perspectives to policy discourse and is committed to advancing inclusive, safe, and rights respecting digital environments across Africa
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Protecting Women Political Actors from Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Africa
This session examines how technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) systematically excludes women from political life in West and East Africa. Drawing on recent research by Pollicy in Ivory Coast and Tanzania, the session highlights how social media platforms, while enabling women in politics and women human rights defenders to engage constituents, mobilise supporters, and amplify advocacy, also expose them to coordinated online harassment, gendered disinformation, sexualised attacks, and threats.
Participants will explore patterns of digital targeting during electoral cycles, cultural and structural drivers of online abuse, and the limitations of legal and platform-based recourse. The discussion will be structured into three interactive sections:
Understanding how TFGBV manifests online and its impact on women’s political participation.
Evaluating gaps in platform moderation, legal protections, and governance frameworks that fail to address local and linguistic contexts.
Co-developing practical recommendations for policy, platform accountability, and civil society interventions that strengthen women’s safe digital participation.
The session will use moderated discussion, scenario-based exercises, and real-time synthesis of insights to generate actionable strategies for policymakers, regulators, civil society, and digital rights advocates across the region.
An Afro feminist Analysis of Digital Public Infrastructure and Gendered Consequences
Digital Public Infrastructure is increasingly promoted across Africa as a foundation for digital government, financial inclusion, and public service delivery. National digital identity systems, interoperable data platforms, and digital payment infrastructures are expanding rapidly. Evidence from recent deployments indicates that efficiency driven design priorities often overshadow inclusion, rights protection, and accountability.
This session presents findings from comparative research conducted in Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa examining how digital public infrastructure governance choices affect women, ethnic minorities, and other marginalised communities. The research identifies structural barriers embedded in system design, data governance frameworks, and institutional accountability arrangements. These barriers include exclusion from identity registration processes, gendered patterns of access to digital services, and limited mechanisms for redress when digital harms occur.
The discussion moves beyond problem identification to examine practical governance responses relevant to West African contexts. Participants will analyse how gender responsive design principles, rights respecting data governance frameworks, and institutional accountability mechanisms can be integrated into digital public infrastructure programmes. The session will draw lessons from the African experience to support policymakers, regulators, and civil society actors working to build inclusive and trusted digital systems.
Expected outcomes include concrete policy recommendations for embedding gender by design approaches in digital public infrastructure governance and strengthening accountability mechanisms for digital systems deployed in public administration.
From Homes to Hashtags: Women Domestic Workers and the Struggle for Fair Labor Policies in Kenya
This discussion will focus on how Kenyan women domestic workers utilize digital platforms in accessing employment, mobilization, and advocating for fair labor practices.
Participants will engage with members from domestic worker collectives, labour platforms, civil society organizations, and policy actors to share experiences, observations, and insights, and practical strategies.
The workshop will be structured into three interactive sections:
1. exploring current use of digital platforms by domestic workers to find work and mobilise,
2. discussing challenges and opportunities for online mobilization, and
3. co-identifying actionable approaches to strengthen domestic worker advocacy, with lessons that can be applied to other sectors or regions..
The participants will contribute through facilitated questions capturing different perspectives encouraging knowledge sharing of experiences from different backgrounds. Real-time feedback and learnings will be collected by capturing key points from discussions and short feedback rounds
Bonaventure Saturday
Research Manager, Pollicy
Kampala, Uganda
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