Cross Roads

  On the Tuesday, 8th November 2022 i had the privilege of attending the Celo Africa Web3 Fund. We had about 50 participants from all over the country to help get us more familair with the Celo Africa Fund for Web3. But what is Web3? Glad you asked! Well Investopedia describes Web3  as the third phase of the evolution of the internet, characterized by decentralization, ubiquity and artificial intelligence . The very well structured event had about three broad phases. The overview of the fund, product use cases and a section that had to do with building on Celo.  The Celo Team was made up of Daniel Kimotho-Celo Ecosystem lead Kenya, Aliu Musa-Celo Ecosystem Lead Nigeria and Umar Sebyala-Celo Ecosystem Lead Uganda. Understanding Celo’s Web3 fund The fund is split up into four major fo us areas. The first is a set of useful impact centered  workshops that are being done in four countries. Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and South Africa. These are designed as meet and gre...

  1. What is your name? Namutebi Gertrude Mirriam 2. Where did you go to school? Greenhill Academy, Gayaza High School, Makerere College School, Makerere  University 3. Do you have a degree if so in what and from where? Bachelor of Library and Information Science from Makerere University 4. What do you do? I am a Freelance UI/UX Designer. I build products for different companies in sectors  such as fintech, healthcare transport, education and logistics  5. Where have you worked before? I have worked for a number of NGOS as a web designer and digital Marketer such  as Kianda Foundation, ANECCA, Promote Uganda. I have worked for Digital  agencies such as Urge Uganda and Neuwelt and I have also worked for tech  companies such as ClinicMaster and Vericle Health Inc as a Content creator, Visual  Designer and UIUX Designer. 6. What unique skills do you bring to the table? Visual Design i.e  1. User Experience Design, User Interface Design i.e. Crea...

For the month of September we definitely have an Application focus. To go with this theme, we thought is would be great to interview a young man that is at the cutting edge of software development. For the first section (which we call Under The Scope) of the magazine, you  noticed that we talked about Jumia while in the second section (On The Scale) we talked about Safe Boda. It therefore makes sense that we devote a section of the month’s magazine  on the subject of the actual design of application of these kinds and some of the minds  that are behind the development of these apps.  So we present an interview that was done with Lincoln Angufibo. A young man the editor  met online on Twitter but who we later connected with at a Data Science meetup organized  by Data Science Network Nigeria in collaboration with Outbox Hub.  1.  What is your name?          My name is Angufibo Tonny Lincoln 2.  Where are you from? ...

  Outbox Hub  On the 4th of June 2022 OutboxHub in collaboration with the Data Science Network of Nigeria organized a Data Science class at their hub in Kampala, Solis House right on Lumumba Ave.  Outbox hub is a well known innovation and incubation center in Uganda that is devoted to training and equipping entreptreneurs with the skills to start, build and grow their businesses. Outbox Hub is currently led by Richard Zulu who leads a team of several individuals at the hub but also at Startup Uganda a group that combines all the major players in the Start up Ecosystem in Uganda.  OutBox hub has held several competitions in the past with the collaboration of companies like MTN, Stanbic Bank, United Nations Populations Fund and Google. They have an attractive Educations Program that hosts 3 month boot camps as well as Labs where non government organizations can learn how to create real social impact.  DSN Nigeria  Data Scientists Network, formerly known as Da...

We just completed a session of some training on Human Centered Design. The event was held at OutBox Hub-a business incubation space, innovation center and co-working space. Outbox Hub was one of the first of its kind of spaces that was designed to help small business people or startups to get their businesses housed incubated.  Outbox hub has an interesting approach to innovation and incubation. They have great partnerships with many key players in Government, Non Governmental Organizations, Health Sector Players as well as Business. They use these partnerships to solve local challenges with technology. This means for example that they have competitions where students and developers can come up with solutions to health (governance, sector-wide challenges), problems that are developed over time, or over a weekend (hackathons).  They also present young business people with the chance to pitch their ideas to an audience of possible investors where they can progress and have their...

Today i had the privilege of attending the second Open Source Summit of Kampala. The numbers were great possibly about 70 young people. The event was slated for the Saturday 9th of April, 2022 at about 10PM. A lot if the hype around the event was created months ago but the major push came from the social media page on twitter that is alive and active. When i attended i admit to expecting some tables devoted to the Open Source giants of the age such as a Linux Community with all the major players and hearing about their work. As a Fedora, Open Suse and Ubuntu user myself i almost wanted to go with a copy of Linux on a stick that i recently installed in a dual boot environment.  The first session was hosted by Solomon Opio who brings with him a wealth of experience having started of with Outbox Hub. He is currently working with Innovation Village which played host to the event and sponsored a great part of it. What was interesting was to hear his perspectives about the tech space in ...