#PKTechWeekly: Uganda Space Technology, ICTAug LAN, Ma3Route, StartUp Culture Killing Us

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…

#PKTechWeekly: ICTAUg Dissolves Board,Telecom to Pay for False Marketing,Uber Partners with a Bank,

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…

#PKTechWeekly: JumiaFood to Deliver NewsPapers, Uber to deliver Food, Women Online Violence, Fezah Partners with JazzFm, #FIFafrica16

“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

#PKTechWeekly; UCC, Ug TechHub, Gender In Tech, Tech for the poor, Solar car

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.…

#PKTechWeekly: Airtel Wall of Fame, SafeRoad, Orange’s developments, NITA-U, Safaricom, Jumia, Writivism

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…

#PKTechWeekly UgDuka, Liquor Store, NITA, BPO-ICTAUG

Beginning this #PkTechWeekly with a look into online shopping. Did you know that DSTV Opened an Online Shop Called UgDuka to offer its customer who don’t want to go to their different branches, a chance to order online and have their equipment delivered in 2 days? Some of their products have been discounted for this…

#PKTechWeekly: Uber, SERVIR West Africa, Andela

Welcome to this week’s #PKTechWeekly please scroll down and get your weekly updates. Uber is committed to the safety of everyone that uses their app, riders and driver-partners alike, it is constantly bettering their safety features and offering more safety features in-app, world wide. These features have been developed to ensure safety before, during, and…

#PKTechWeekly; #Tech in the Bible, $24 million, Decline in Users, Talib Kweli

Google is our friend is the first topic for this week’s #PKTechWeekly.

#Uber’s car leasing program turns its drivers into modern-day sharecroppers

Behind the shiny veneer of Uber’s venture capital–backed technological innovation lies a time-tested business model: labor exploitation. Uber’s latest scheme is a new spin on the age-old practice of sharecropping. Struggling to find enough drivers willing to put miles on their own cars, Uber recently began offering subprime auto loans to would-be drivers, conveniently extracting… via…

#PKTechWeekly; Africa Next Frontier for Nuclear Technology, Innovate for Justice, StartUp BattleField & more

Albert Einstein said; “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”