Once upon a time, there was a need to regulate the use of bikes – 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 stage and have riders’ permits – default setting, Safeboda. The main implementer for this was Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA). Twice upon a time the above was halted, but the wait for the resurrection is on. But as young innovators and entrepreneurs of the Pearl of Africa, waiting on things we can do for ourselves seem…
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#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. While the issue of gender diversity in business is nothing new, the nature of the modern business environment has made this issue all the more important. Diversity on boards is critical to sustaining business performance. Not only does it assist to broaden the pool of eligible candidates for board positions, but also assist in expanding…
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#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 after every ride and Uber urges riders to make use of these for their own security. Some of these include; Know your driver, Track the trip, Share your ETA, 24/7 support, Feedback, but there are these top safety tips for riders to make sure their trips are as secure as possible: Verify your driver-partner and vehicle before getting into the car, using…
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Floods and Resilience
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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 and economic health in their communities. All developers across Africa are invited to enter the challenge. The Innovation Challenge Award is worthy US $150,000 for the app, website or service judged to be the best in two categories: learning/education (apps, websites or online services that make use of technology to inspire and deliver learning) economic empowerment (apps,…
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Part 2: Are girls afraid to lead? No, they are not!
Are girls afraid to lead? No, they are not!
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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 Facebook likes, send 278 thousand Tweets, and up-load 200 thousand photos to Facebook [Source], Google alone processes on average over 40 thousand search queries per second, making it over 3.5 billion in a single day. [Source], Facebook users share 30 billion pieces of content between them every day. [Source], Around 100 hours of video are…













