Norah Owaraga

State of the Nation Address 2017

“Uganda is enriching other countries by excessively importing products and services that your own children can produce, if assisted by the State … You donate both wealth and jobs to outsiders … We need to massively end this modern day slavery of undermining our prosperity, while we support the prosperity of other.” Words of wisdom…

The Fallacy of Facts

“Late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in North Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was a chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he couldn’t tell what the…

Proliferation of digital devices does not always mean availability of information

Achebe: “Man is a story-making animal. He rarely passes up an opportunity to accompany his works and his experiences with matching stories. The heavy task of dispossessing others calls for such a story…”

The other side of the digital revolution that is negatively ravaging social norms

Digital technology (machines and soft ware) have intrinsic power, but to some extent only. To the extent that the technical knowledge, the theoretical knowledge or what Aristotle defined as “certain knowledge”, specifically the design of the gadgets (hardware) and the software (operating systems) have an in-built potential power to transform society. These days, for example,…