Attention is the most valuable resource in the world right now and for many more years to come. Attention is currently more valuable than gold, than oil, than anything we ever thought of as important. Attention is even more expensive than sugar. At the end of the day, your legacy will come down to how…
Should Democracy come to Disruption? Today’s disruptive businesses is win because they constantly look for ways to work smarter and improve their customers’ lives, and because they are flexible enough to do so. Because they’re born in the cloud, these companies can quickly respond to changing customer needs, whether that means rolling out a new service…
We Need To Say Goodbye To Third-World Communication When networks fail, manufacturers can’t access the inventory data they need to respond to RFPs. Healthcare organisations can’t deliver patient information or test results to the point of care, or empower practitioners with the clinical systems they rely on. Financial services companies can’t process transactions. VoIP and…
The future of innovation is about access not ownership Most organisations need to wake up to the idea that innovation is about access and collaboration, not ownership. There is a clear business case for recycling the abundance of technologies and outcomes of user and market experiments from adjacent industries. In the hyped start-up scene, everybody…
Website Technology has been and continues to play me. This time round I lost all my site widgets and plugins which are supported by Jetpack under WordPress. I opened my site and it was not there, error something. Just like the thief Jesus talked about it was gone. On resolution from the server the site…
Fourth Industrial revolution will leave Africa behind Like most technological revolutions, Africa plays catch cup and its about to be do exactly that with the Fourth Industrial Revolution which is integrating the digital, physical, and biological worlds. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is described by Klaus Swaub, the founder of the World Economic Forum, as building…
I promised myself to be loyal to my blogging commitments this month and that commitment includes this part of my blog called #PKTechWeekly. Procrastination on it has been real, but I am walking in power with it this month. So here we go…. Has Airtel Money and MTN Mobile Money gotten married? Below is an…
Once upon a time there was a need to regulate the use of bikes – boda bodas in the city of Kampala. The regulations were to enable safety, ease monitoring and management of the bikes in the capital city. These regulations required bikers and their users to wear helmets, bikers to be registered under a…
It might have looked like a neglected section on my blog for sometime, but I think the whole blog has been so. I have not dished out blogs as I always do during this time ( end and beginning of the years), but here is the first #PkTechWeekly entry for this year. Do you know…
A whole generation is being trained to sell their companies as quickly as possible – rather than doing any actual work to nurture them – Telegraph The sight of a farmer weeding his fields by hand deep in the villages is a timeless scene, far removed from the high-tech, interconnected world of today. Yet the…
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity -Albert Einstein ICTAUg Dissolved its 2016 -2017 Board and Elected an Interim Board On 27th January 2016 the ICT Association of Uganda elected board members to run the association for two years, during the Annual General meeting. The Association which is a multi-stakeholder initiative…
Technology brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other – C.P. Snow.
“If you’re beautiful, you’re led to believe that you can’t also be smart,”
“But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you’ll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.” – Actress and mathematician Danica McKellar
Verified on Twitter? Its not that serious!
Thank God I had a childhood before Technology took over. Enjoy this week’s #PKTechWeekly
Technology is best when it brings people together- Matt Mullenweg
Free WiFi for the Kampala on the Government of Uganda Account
“What I want to ask of all of you, when you are building your startups, is [to] really, really try to empathize with the customer.” — Gilt’s Steve Jacobs
In this week’s #pktechweekly; Uganda to be a TechHub for Africa by 2030. The Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Elioda Tumwesigye said Uganda will be a hub for science and technology in whole of Africa by 2030 during a technovation challenge at the Makerere University School of Public Health-powered ResilientAfrica Network. Gender in Technology.…
Welcome to August! Ephesians 4:22-24 To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Let’s start…