Registered in 2016, Pollicy is a civic technology social enterprise using the power of data and technology to improve public service delivery for citizens in Uganda, and across Africa. Pollicy believes in the power of data to revolutionize how governments deliver services to their citizens. By improving data processes, we can improve how services are delivered, how budgets are allocated, how citizens interact with governments, and how organizations advocate for social change.
Pollicy provides design consulting to re-engineer civic engagement and participatory processes, technology solutions for communication, digital data collection, crowdfunding, and research services to better understand what works within each local context. There are major gaps within government and stakeholders in collecting data, analysing this data, and using this data within planning, budgeting and programming. Therefore, through new technologies, Pollicy plans to bridge data gaps from grassroots level all the way up to the national level.
Pollicy works with a variety of partners to develop strategies aimed at adopting effective technology and design initiatives to improve the experience of citizen engagement and participation. Their passion is focused on influencing a culture of data use, promoting the use of shared data platforms, building analytical capacity and advocating for improved data usage amongst political candidates, civil society organizations, non-governmental organization and governments. And their work is aimed at increasing the knowledge base of civic technology within different local contexts to promote active learning and adoption.
A major strength of the organization lies in its technical skills and closeness with local networks. Pollicy built these skills based on numerous years of experience working on mobile technologies such as short message service (SMS) and Interactive Voice Response, and working alongside Mobile Network Operators and aggregators as well as through engagement with organizations on their data capacity.
