Financial institutions have increased financial IT investment, strengthened mobile banking service capabilities, and accelerated innovation to drive digital transformation Huawei Enterprise Business Group (EBG) will host the Huawei Southern Africa FSI Summit online 2020 on May 29th, from 10.00am – 12.00pm, with the theme of “Accelerating Digital Transformation, Enable Business Growth Again”. The online summit will include presentations from Chen…
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Networking Tips – Amos Wekesa.
Davies and I today morning left kampala headed to Kasanje for ridding partly. We did 50kms in today. Davies is an engineer with Uganda national Road authority(UNRA) and yes a key technical guy. I first met him along my advocacy route over years. I have gotten so many inbox messages of young people asking me to write about the value…
Read MoreAdaptiveMobile supports MTN’s Child Online Protection programme in partnership with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)
In its continued efforts to protect mobile networks and their subscribers from all global mobile security threats, AdaptiveMobile Security is delighted to support MTN with their latest Child Online Protection programme, which was recently launched in partnership with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). MTN is the first Africa-wide Telecommunications Company to partner with the IWF. AdaptiveMobile Security’s award-winning Network Protection…
Read MoreSafaricom Foundation and Scope International Partner To Set Up Sanitation Booths
Thousands of people in the counties of Homabay, Siaya, Migori, Kisii, Bungoma and Busia are expected to benefit from sanitation booths set up by Safaricom Foundation in partnership with Scope International to help curb the spread of COVID-19. The sanitation booths have been installed at Kenya’s border to Tanzania at Isebania in Migori County and at the Ugandan border in…
Read MoreReflection: #AgripreneurIt, _A time to plant and a time to plan [ Strive Masiyiwa ]
There’s an old story some of you have probably heard called “The Wolf You Feed”. It goes something like this (I have adapted it a little). One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two ‘wolves’ inside us all. One is Evil. It is…
Read MoreTourism – Amos Wekesa.
This week the President of Uganda said, we shall lose usd 1.6billion due to Covid19 as potential earning from Tourism this year. I think without covid19, tourisms fortunes were going to be higher than this due to advance bookings we had experienced. As a Country, we haven’t milked this cow called Tourism well partly because we haven’t studied the positive…
Read MorePrenatal programming and the father – Rosey Sembatya.
To understand the importance of a father in the life of the child in the womb, you have to refer to Scripture. The only time that God, the Father shares His name with a being is for this sacred role. This means that FATHERHOOD is an honor. It is a gift. It is a responsibility. It is a calling. It…
Read MorePetroleum Authority gets new board of directors.
Kampala Uganda, Energy and Mineral Development Minister, Dr Mary Goretti Kitutu inaugurated a new board of directors to the Petroleum Authority of Uganda. The new board which includes members from the old board is expected to steer the Authority for the next your years. This is the second board of directors for the authority.The new Board was appointed by the…
Read MoreUgandan Innovator launches DolphinFund, a community driven fundraising platform for COVID19
A Ugandan Innovator has set up Dolphin Fund a crowdfunding platform that is aimed at alleviating some of the challenges introduced by the COVID19 global pandemic. In order to stop the spread of the coronavirus, several restrictions have been put in place by the Uganda government similar to interventions by other governments all over the world. As schools, worship centers,…
Read MoreSudan rejects Ethiopia’s proposal to fill mega-dam
Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Sudan on Tuesday rejected an Ethiopian proposal to sign an initial agreement greenlighting the filling of a controversial mega-dam it is building. “I cannot accept the signing of a draft agreement to the first phase (filling the dam) because it poses legal and technical problems that must be addressed,” Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said…
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