In Uganda, verifying whether a company is legitimately registered takes an in-person visit to the Uganda Registration Services Bureau — or knowing someone who can navigate the system on your behalf. In Kenya, land searches require physical presence at the lands registry. Across the region, the story is the same: public records are public in name only.
The Cost of Inaccessible Records
When public records are hard to access, the consequences cascade. Corruption thrives in opacity. Due diligence becomes prohibitively expensive for SMEs. Journalists investigating fraud lack the document trail needed to build their stories. Courts operate without full information. Citizens cannot hold institutions accountable.
What Public Record Africa Is Building
Public Record Africa is an AI-powered platform that indexes, digitises, and makes searchable the public documents of East and Central Africa. Starting with Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi, we are building the infrastructure layer that researchers, journalists, legal professionals, and policymakers need.
Our initial focus is the Uganda Gazette — decades of public notices, company registrations, land declarations, and statutory instruments, now being indexed and made searchable for the first time.
Private beta access is available now. Join the waitlist at traverseminds.ug/public-record.