Facebook brings its Internet.org Innovation Challenge to Africa
Recognition for African developers who are working to deliver apps, websites and services for learning/education and economic empowerment; $US150, 000 awards for winners in two categories. Have you heard yet? Facebook is launching the Internet.org Innovation Challenge in Africa with the aim of recognising developers and entrepreneurs who are using the internet to improve the standard of education…
Project Link Launched, So No More Digging for BlueRedYellowGreen Cable Laying?
#KoikoiUg…. Google project launched last week in Kampala with a promise of improving our internet speed and experience. According to this statement on their site, they have built the first metro fiber network in this, our city Kampala, that was limited to pre-broadband speeds. They continue to say; In Uganda, we also offer wholesale last-mile Wi-Fi…
Part 2: Are girls afraid to lead? No, they are not!
Are girls afraid to lead? No, they are not!
Big Data Facts and Sources
I know you have heard this ‘Big Data’ gospel that is taking over the world already, but do you know these facts about it? That; Every 2 days since 2003 we create so much information more than we did from the beginning of time [Source], Every minute we send 204 million emails, generate 1,8 million…
Liquid Telecom To Invest UGX 2 billion in Uganda Internet Infrastructure
IP provider in eastern, central and southern Africa, announced an investment of UGX 2 bn the Ugandan subsidiary Infocom, to extend its pan African fibre cable infrastructure across Kampala’s Central Business District and to multiple rural towns across Uganda, including Mukono, Jinja, Masaka, and Mbarara. Liquid Telecom is the leading independent data, voice and IP…
Gagamel Cards And PayWay Solutions Facilitating #Tech In Uganda's Entertainment Industry
This month the Ugandan entertainment sector has seen so far some great improvement with the launch of two great innovations that will make the purchase of tickets to entertainment events very easy and flexible. This is so impressive, I am actually glad that such things are happening in such sectors in this country. All sectors…
Ugandan Innovators Should Protect Their IP Ideas Than Functioning On Secrecy
So we are developing ideas that have no IPs (intellectual Property) licences in Africa, mainly here in Uganda. I have seen a number of get ideas but they have no patents thus someone else can do the same thing around the world and our poor Ugandan developers will lose out on that money and fame.…
Forget CVs, Big Data Is Taking Over Recruiting Decisions
“Big data” and complex algorithms are increasingly taking decisions out of the hands of individual interviewers a trend that is seen to affect job seekers and recruiters alike. A number of businesses are now using data sets of past behaviours to predict everything from salesmanship to loyalty of clients, employees and company growth levels. Recruiters…
#Sex And #Technology
Let me begin this post with a quote, “Preparing children and young people for the transition to adulthood has always been one of humanity’s great challenges, with human sexuality and relationship at its core. Today, in a world with AIDS, how we meet this challenge is our most important opportunity in breaking the trajectory of the epidemic.” Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS…
Nest Says No Google Ad On Thermostats
Earlier today I wrote about Google Ads on all it gadgets including Next’s thermostats, now news reports say ex-Apple executive and Nest co-founder Tony Fadell say there will not be Ads on his creation. Tony said that the company’s Nest Learning Thermostats will not be an outlet for such promotions. This assertion comes after Nest was approved…
Google To Start Rolling Out Ads On Your Fridge And Thermostat
It didn’t take that long for Google to use the dormant spaces it has on the current devices it has brought overtimes, for it to mention using them for Ads. As already known no one beats Google at Ads on the internet and mobile phones and with such strength the ad giant sees its money-spinning…
Congz #Twitter, On The New #Facebook Design
Oh yes thank you Twitter for the new look, yeah… you really outdid yourself. Question though, are you trying to compete with Facebook in anyway? I understand you want adverts but did you have to go and become Facebook? After playing around with the new look I have realised that, the year I joined this Social site…
Growth Of #Technology In #Uganda
Technology has really made the world a global village. This is in regard to the way information travels nowadays from one continent to another in seconds and back. Africa has joined the rest of the world and is striving to be part of this global village. In Uganda, technology is gradually contributing to this country’s economic…
Winner Takes It All: #Google’s Project Loon Or #Facebook's Internet.org
Two thirds of the world’s population have no access to internet and these two giant tech companies have come up with projects to connect all of us, have ourselves a global village. The aim here is to help everyone have a chance to compete favourable on the world map, no one greater than the other,…
Farmers Should Use #SocialMedia To Stay Connected #1ACCA
As telecom companies are staying relevant in their competitive market, I think farmers should do the same too. Social media keeps us connected and informed about all the different things happening around the world. Alot of information is passed on through these platforms that it would be necessary for farmers to engage with and learn…
There Goes Desktop Advertising, Here Comes Mobile Ads
Google has been saying this for the last couple of years, how it is making a lot of money out of Mobile adverts more than desktop. Now eMarketer released is saying the shift is on and it is going to cost desktop advertising $1.4 billion loss as most of us search more on mobile than on the desktop.…
Mobile Money – The Next Frontier Ubiquity
Mobile money is on an exponential growth curve in Africa, due to the growth in mobile phone penetration of GSM SIM based phone networks, and is considered the next frontier in financial inclusion for the un-banked, and easing the costs of transactions on the continent. He broke down features and approaches mobile money providers can…
Top Revenue Opportunities In The Mobile Economy #MEA2014
As the Mobile East Africa conference has ended today in Nairobi, Kenya… I have learnt a number of things by just following this hashtag #MEA2014. The most interesting presentation from the conference was Tomi T Ahonen who said that ‘Mobile data is the black gold of 21st century’. Tomi is an Author, a mobile and digital…
IBM One of Most Innovative Companies In Big Data
IBM is one of the biggest global data preachers in sharing problem solving solutions in cities around the world, mainly in businesses and universities. The US multinational made its name in computer hardware but has transitioned into a leading supplier of information technology, business services and software. In 2005, through it’s General Manager Nicholas Nesbitt established the…