Topic
Healthy habits with screens, kids, and family life.
Some of the biggest cybersecurity problems don't begin with hackers. They begin with helpful people. One employee registers the company domain using a personal email and debit card. Years later, they leave—and so does access to the business's digital front door. The first article in The Business You Think You Own explores why ownership, not hacking, may be your biggest hidden risk.
Jun 27, 2026
School fees can open doors, but digital recklessness can close them. A cruel comment, bullying video, offensive joke, or leaked screenshot may look like childish behavior today, but tomorrow it may become search results. Digital judgment is now part of preparing children for university, work, and life.
Jun 12, 2026
Schools need visibility, but visibility should not come at the cost of children’s privacy. In the effort to market learning, achievement, and school life online, many schools may be revealing more than they realize: names, uniforms, routines, locations, certificates, and other small details that can build a profile around a child. The issue is not that schools are posting. The issue is what they are revealing. Market the school. Protect the child.
Jun 4, 2026
Parents spend years monitoring report cards, grades, and school performance. But in today’s world, another record is quietly being built through group chats, screenshots, posts, comments, usernames, and online behavior. This article explores why a child’s digital record matters, how it can affect future trust and opportunity, and why families must start guiding digital habits early.
Jun 1, 2026
Schools are facing a new kind of cyber threat in the AI era. Recent reports revealed how criminals are using artificial intelligence to manipulate ordinary photos of children into fake explicit content for blackmail and extortion. A classroom picture, sports day photo, or graduation portrait can now become an attack surface. This open letter explores what happened, why schools should pay attention, and how institutions can better protect learners in a rapidly changing digital world.
May 25, 2026
Back in the day, our parents worried about strangers carrying kikapu baskets. Today, the stranger arrives through Wi-Fi. As school fees climb into the millions, many parents are investing heavily in education while remaining absent from the digital environments shaping their children every day. Cyberbullying, digital addiction, online predators, scams, and manipulative algorithms are no longer “internet problems.” They are parenting, wellbeing, and education problems too.
May 22, 2026
Many parents want to talk to their children about the digital world but feel stuck before they begin. Not because they don’t care — but because no one taught us how. Starting these conversations doesn’t require perfect words or full explanations. It begins with availability, calm, and permission to ask. Digital parenting isn’t one big talk — it’s a relationship that grows with the child.
Feb 20, 2026
You can block the apps. You can limit screen time. You can lock down your Wi-Fi. But parental controls don’t follow your child to the sleepover. In a world where children encounter the internet through friends, borrowed phones, and shared screens, digital safety cannot rely on settings alone. What children carry with them into those spaces isn’t a filter — it’s the conversations, values, and trust we’ve built at home.
Feb 6, 2026
Dear Uganda, welcome back from the naughty corner. Not fully free, not fully connected — just back in bits. TVs were on, radios were loud, but timelines went quiet. In the silence, something unexpected happened: meals were eaten without scrolling, conversations stretched longer, and many of us realized how tired we are from being constantly online. It wasn’t applause for a shutdown — it was a reminder that digital habits matter too.
Jan 19, 2026
Election season does strange things to the internet. WhatsApp groups wake up, everyone knows someone who “works somewhere,” and official-looking notices begin circulating faster than context. This piece explores how disinformation now arrives calmly and convincingly, why panic spreads faster than facts during elections, and how staying informed doesn’t mean staying anxious — it means slowing down, verifying, and choosing not to forward fear.
Jan 9, 2026
Before we learned to journal our thoughts, we learned to screenshot them. From WhatsApp aunties to office group chats, screenshots have become our digital receipts — proof that we saw, heard, and survived it. But behind every cropped image and forwarded chat lies a story about trust, privacy, and control. Here’s a witty, Ugandan reflection on how screenshots both protect and poison our digital lives.
Oct 24, 2025
