Evaluation of Social Media Use for Educational Purposes and Economic Empowerment Among the Youth in Uganda (UCC)

A collaborative study between the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) and Prof. Jude Lubega to assess the role of social media in education and economic empowerment among Ugandan youth. The project includes data collection, policy analysis, and proposing frameworks for integration.

Overall Objective:

To establish the current state of use of social media within the education sector and for economic empowerment among the youth and teachers.

Specific objectives:

• Highlight the current state of use of social media for educational purposes and economic empowerment.
• Collate qualitative data on social media for education and economic empowerment.
• Assess the social media integration policy and its regulatory environment to support education and economic empowerment.
• Highlight some key lessons from countries in the region on their approach to use of social media for education and economic empowerment.
• Propose a framework for the integration of social media in education and economic empowerment.

Tasks Completed

• Entry meetings with UCC.
• Preliminary document review.
• Stakeholder mapping (students, teachers, ISPs, policymakers).
• Design of research methodology and tools.
• Data collection (primary and secondary).
• Training of research teams.
• Analysis of data.
• Validation workshop with stakeholders.

OutPut

1. Inception Report (methodology and work plan).
2. Progress Report.
3. Draft Study Report.
4. Cleaned datasets (soft/hard copies).
5. Final Report with recommendations.
6. 6. Validation Workshop outputs.