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Solomon King on Becoming an Accidental Journalist

December 2, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
For blogger and citizen journalist Solomon King, the 2009 Kampala riots began with his tweet “Okay, we’re running for our lives.” Here he talks about ...
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Paul Bagyenda: Geography is History

November 29, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Ugandan computer scientist Paul Bagyenda discusses how the internet has changed Uganda over the past decade and why ‘geography is history’. Recorded November 23 ...
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MTN Uganda, Rwanda Add New Mobile Money Services

October 16, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
MTN Uganda announced that it will be joining Zain and Safaricom in offering international mobile money transfers to its subscribers. Zain announced a parternship ...
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Kampala Riots, Citizens Tweet

September 11, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Yesterday around 2pm riots broke out in specific regions of Uganda’s capital city Kampala. If you lived anywhere else in the world, you probably dind’t ...
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FricaFactoid 2 – Cellphones Outnumber Lightbulbs in Uganda

August 10, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
In the second episode of The FricaFactoid, we do some math to figure out if the statement ‘there are more cellphones than lightbulbs in Uganda’ ...
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Africa’s First Coffee Roasting and Packaging Plant Opens in Uganda

July 22, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
At the factory opening, Ugandan President Museveni said, “This is liberation from economic slavery. Our inability to add value to our exports has subjected us ...
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Should Government Force Mobile Carriers to Lower SMS Prices?

July 15, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
A few weeks ago, Google, Grameen Foundation and MTN Uganda launched a premium SMS service aimed at delivering health tips and critical agriculture tips to the poor. A ...
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Do Cellphones Outnumber Lightbulbs in Uganda?

July 14, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Paul Boutin at Venturebeat recently wrote: “More than a third of Ugandans own cellphones. In some areas, ‘cellphones could outnumber light bulbs.’ Is that really ...
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Affect Theory

June 8, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
An excerpt from an essay on social capital and investments I posted over at the TED Fellows Blog… In Makerere’s Computer Science program they graduate about ...
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Answerbird Flies High

May 6, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
In the first of a series of profiles on my staff’s projects and works in progress, today I’m featuring Felix ‘Kayt’ Kitaka and his Facebook ...
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