By Michael Ssekyondwa The economy was undeniably impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with many businesses closing, others struggling to stay afloat and some continually doing their best to innovate in order to recover from the heavy financial burden experienced in the year 2020. With the stock markets depreciating, interest rates on returns on investment dipping and investment assets frozen or stifled; 2020 was a time of reckoning, rethinking and re-strategizing for individuals passionate about growing personal wealth and driving towards financial security. However, according to projections from economists, the economy is slowly recovering with a number of sectors opening…
This Is Premium Content. Subscribe And Save On Unlimited Access With Our Best Offers!
Roke Telkom, a fully licensed Ugandan-based telecommunications company has been awarded a grant worth Ushs. 100 million under Phase 3 of the National Support Initiatives Program. The grant from the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance will enable Roke Telkom to adapt and localize the Cogniware Insights system software and the entire analytics process cycle for the Ugandan market. “Our team is honored to qualify as a beneficiary with a grant award amount of One Hundred Million Uganda Shillings (UGX100,000,000). We are looking forward to expanding on our innovation initiatives with further localization for deployment and use in Uganda and…
This Is Premium Content. Subscribe And Save On Unlimited Access With Our Best Offers!
Employees should adequately prepare for work places of the future and continuously adapt to changes in work environments if they are to be career resilient. The call, was made by Mercy K Kainobwisho, the Registrar General Uganda Registration Services Bureau while speaking at a virtual presentation on the theme “Career Resilience: What is it exactly and what does it take to build it?” organized by the Career and Skills Development Centre of Makerere University Business School yesterday. She said organisations have been reviewing the human capital landscape largely because of the economic hardships brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic combined…
This Is Premium Content. Subscribe And Save On Unlimited Access With Our Best Offers!
After nearly a year of a Covid-19 induced shutdown of much of Uganda’s education system, all signs and indications are that government has resolved to reopen schools this February. All primary and secondary schools, universities and other institutions of learning were closed on President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s orders, starting Friday, March 20, 2020. Although there has been some partial reopening of some candidate classes, much of the over 15 million of Uganda’s learners remained home. The closure, although believed to have stemmed the quick spread of Covid-19, has caused untold misery to the education sector- for especially the thousands of…
This Is Premium Content. Subscribe And Save On Unlimited Access With Our Best Offers!
The rescue package that was announced by governments around the world to help Small Scale Enterprises-SMEs to recover from the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic is yet to have a tangible impact on the sector. The pandemic compelled governments to shut down their economies to control the spread of the virus. To-date, some of the sectors like bars, schools and entertainment remain under lock down, while some businesses are increasingly going digital to salvage their operations without violating COVID-19 containment measures put in place by the governments.These are some of the industries that require people to crowd in one place…
This Is Premium Content. Subscribe And Save On Unlimited Access With Our Best Offers!
By Chen Lei, President of Huawei Southern Africa For most of us, 2020 has been a year of almost dramatic, almost traumatic change. As individuals, our lives have been transformed; as businesses, our operating models have been revolutionised; and as a society, we have been shaken to the core. Fortunately, many of the technologies that have helped us through the worst of the pandemic and the lockdown, hold the key to success and prosperity in the post-lockdown era. The new ways of interaction that emerged this year – characterised by remote work, distance education, remote healthcare, online shopping and mobile…
This Is Premium Content. Subscribe And Save On Unlimited Access With Our Best Offers!
To ensure safe and reliable mode of transportation during COVID-19, Uber has quickly adapted their safety features and policies to follow the directives set by the government. “Since the pandemic began, Uber has taken meaningful steps to help keep everyone on the Uber platform safe. This includes providing the latest public health information in our apps, and providing active drivers diagnosed with COVID-19 – or those having to self-isolate – with financial assistance from Uber for up to 14 days. This is in addition to the free Partner Protection insurance with UAP Old Mutual Life Assurance Uganda,” said Brian Njao,…
This Is Premium Content. Subscribe And Save On Unlimited Access With Our Best Offers!
MultiChoice Uganda, through its local content flagship channel, Pearl Magic has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth UGX281.3 million (US$75,000) to Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and the National COVID-19 Task Force intended for people in high-risk areas and those at the frontline in support towards the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking during the handover, Colin Asiimwe, Head of Marketing appreciated the government, the medical fraternity, private sector and the general public for their collective efforts towards the fight against COVID-19 in these unprecedented times. He further stressed that, MultiChoice Uganda had made previous interventions to support the cause…
This Is Premium Content. Subscribe And Save On Unlimited Access With Our Best Offers!
When the government of Uganda announced that Entebbe International Airports would be open effective 01st October 2020 members of the Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agencies (UAERA) were among the most excited. Many of them, according to Ronnie Mukundane the UAERA spokesperson, had braved the 7 months of airport closure, keeping their costs to the bare minimum- trying to not to close office as they still had an obligation to especially keep their customer services desks open to deal with inquiries from parents as well as the thousands of Ugandan workers abroad, mainly in the Middle East. “Our over 200…
This Is Premium Content. Subscribe And Save On Unlimited Access With Our Best Offers!
On 30th August (a Sunday), I begun to feel unwell with fever. I called into work on Monday to report sick, in order to be in conformity with the COVID-19 guidelines. However, I did not believe at all that I was sick with COVID-19. I thought it was one of those rare fevers I get that lasts only one or two days after my body lowers resistance following over-exertion while exercising. After all, had been careful in following COVID-19 guidelines. But as we all should know by now, one cannot be careful enough when it comes to this plague and…
This Is Premium Content. Subscribe And Save On Unlimited Access With Our Best Offers!
