Uganda is paying heavily to keep cash alive. Every year, trillions of shillings are absorbed into an economy still built around physical currency through the systems that print, transport, secure,...
Airtel Africa is setting its sights firmly on Uganda as a key investment destination, with Group CEO Sunil Taldar signalling deeper capital deployment and continued technology rollouts in what he...
A growing wave of impersonation accounts mimicking Ugandan business magnate Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia has triggered fresh warnings from cybersecurity experts, authorities, and the public, highlighting the increasing sophistication of online...
The Uganda Digital Society (UDS) is today hosting the 1st Inaugural Digital Marketers Roundtable, a high-level industry conversation that brings together marketing professionals, industry leaders, and innovators to examine the...
Uganda has spent years talking about digital transformation. It has built strategies around it, launched platforms around it, and anchored part of its long-term economic future on it. But for...
The East African region had 62.46 million internet users by the end of 2017, a latest report has revealed. The report, “Digital in 2017: A study of Internet, Social Media…
During US Senate confirmation hearings, when asked if he could make a decision as Secretary of Defense that would be adverse to the interests of General Motors, Charles E. Wilson…
The year 2017 served up quiet some mixed bag for one of Uganda’s biggest domestic revenue contributors – the telecommunication sector. It was in 2017 that the mandatory cut-off of…
The last two years have seen the proliferation of online cab operators in Uganda’s transport milieu. It’s the digital era so a taxi should be at your palm, with…
Total Uganda, one of the biggest integrated oil and gas company in the country, has added individual consumers to its cashless payment system that uses debit cards. Over the past…
Airtel Uganda has today announced that it is investing some $50 million (about Shs180 billion) in a countrywide mobile broadband upgrade. The upgrade, which comes at the back of Airtel…
Nicholas Kalungi. President Yoweri Museveni and his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta have committed to jointly construct the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from Naivasha to Kisumu and Malaba. This was confirmed…
Persistent rumours and anxiety that telecom giants Airtel is exiting several local markets on the continent will have to lie low for a while after Airtel Rwanda made a strong…
BY PHILLIP NABWISO In a move to boost Uganda’s economy, especially with the envisaged target of achieving middle-income status by 2020, the government recently rolled out the 2017-2022 National Financial…
BY FAITH ATHNUS In August 2016, MTN Uganda, together with Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA Bank), launched MoKash, a digital service that allows mobile money subscribers to access microloans and…
