Tag Archives: Digital

  COMMENT | RONALD KATO ODONGO | Uganda is entering another national examination season, with learners, teachers and parents focused on preparing candidates for success. At the same time, increasing internet access is changing how Ugandans learn, communicate and access information. According to the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), Uganda had …

    BEIJING | Xinhua |  Digitalization and the green transition are serving as twin drivers of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation, according to a think tank report released Tuesday. Titled “Building an Open World Economy Through Belt and Road Cooperation,” the report was issued by the Xinhua …

  Physical branches remain important for advisory services and complex transactions, but they are no longer the primary centre of financial activity   COMMENT | MARK MUYOBO | Uganda’s financial sector is undergoing a quiet but intense transformation. For decades, competition among banks was driven by interest rates, fees, branch …

  SPECIAL REPORT |  In Mukono District, a digital antenatal care registry is changing how health workers record and follow up pregnant women. Researchers are extending the system to capture birth outcomes and maternal and perinatal deaths, as Uganda seeks to address fragmented records and strengthen the connection between health …

  Under the Airtel Adopt A School Program, Over 3,349 Learners and 83 Teachers to benefit from new Digital Learning facility   Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | A total of 3,349 learners and 83 teachers across four schools in Uganda are set to benefit from improved learning environments and …

    COMMENT | DAVIS MWIINE | What began as a parliamentary investigation into delays in Uganda’s Digital Number Plate Project is increasingly at risk of losing sight of the project itself. Weeks of hearings before Parliament’s Committee on Physical Infrastructure, chaired by Mwine Mpaka, have focused heavily on the price, …

  Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Members of Parliament’s Committee on Physical Infrastructure, led by Chairperson Mwine Mpaka, have visited the Police Command Centre at Naguru to see first-hand how the Digital Number Plate System operates. This, days after legislators questioned whether its security and vehicle-tracking functions were delivering the intended …

  A small retailer no longer needs a card terminal, a downtown address and a large advertising budget to sell beyond its neighborhood. Across Africa, mobile networks now support payments, storefronts, logistics, customer service and cloud software on the same device, often letting a sole trader handle jobs once split …

  SPECIAL FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT |  Brenda Zalwango ranks among the most prominent and widely recognised digital personalities in Uganda today, with a public profile that very few Ugandan creators can match in either scale or breadth. Where most social media figures build a single identity — as a …

  Kolawole Adeniyi has spent the past four months leading Glovo Uganda as its general manager. A trained pharmacist from Obafemi Awolowo University, he holds an MBA from IE Business School in Madrid. Before joining Glovo Uganda, he held leadership positions at Danone, Airtel and Jumia in Nigeria. He also …