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Virtual currency and the fourth industrial revolution
Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday, 18th June, 2019 that Facebook and more than two dozen Founding Member companies, including eBay, Uber, Lyft, Spotify, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Coinbase and venture capital […] More
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#DigitalFirst: Let’s talk Cyber Security 01
For some time now, I have introduced myself as a Digital Evangelist as often as I can. My profiles, bios and resume also read “Digital First. Always.” and go on […] More
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Reflecting on The 10 commandments of Egoless programming.
Background The 10 commandments of Egoless Programming was inspired by the book, The Psychology of Computer Programming, first released in the 1970s, where Jerry Weinberg coined the term “egoless programming”. […] More
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SPORTS WOMEN GO DIGITAL FOR FEMALE EMPOWERMENT
Women in Uganda have represented their country worldwide on different professional levels and many have brought glory home. Nowadays women in sports are everywhere – when you go to football, […] More
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in Business and Entrepreneurship, Finance, Markets and Economics, Innovation, Science and Technology, Law, Crime and Justice, Manufacturing and Industry, Nutrition, Wellness and FitnessThe Revolution Begins NOW!
There is a general assumption that revolutions must involve bloodshed, loss of lives, and destruction of property. As History has proven, even when those things happen, one problem is often […] More
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WHY AFRICAN SCHOLARS SHOULD EMBRACE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA PUBLISHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
There is no doubt that Internet and social media have revolutionised the way we communicate and socialise in Africa (e.g., Bhanye, et.al., 2023). In this century of of new and […] More
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What you need to know about Bitcoin.
For the last few months, I’ve attended several conferences in the discussing various aspects of the financial services sector from product innovation to financial inclusion. The one thing that has […] More
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DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING THROUGH THE USE OF CLOUD SYSTEM IN ELECTORAL FRAUD IN UGANDA.
Introduction As Uganda approaches the 2026 Presidential and General Elections, concerns are growing about a troubling trend: the potential use of cloud system integration in electoral fraud, which could accelerate […] More
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in Business and Entrepreneurship, Community & Opinion, Identity & Culture, Innovation, Science and TechnologyOUR ANOMIE COMETH INVITED
Amazon is suing Perplexity for letting its customers use AI agents (lets call them bots) that impersonate the account holders to shop for them. Amazon argues that stopping Perplexity’s agentic […] More
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How AI in a nurse’s pocket can strengthen Rwanda’s health system.
Picture this: It is 5:17 am and the hills are still dark. Claudine, a head nurse, walks into her health post. The generator makes a low sound. A few people […] More
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I Thought It Was a Friend Request… But It Was a Phishing Trap
It started like any ordinary afternoon. I was scrolling through my social media feed, half-listening to a podcast, when a notification blinked on my screen: a friend request. Not from […] More
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Beyond the Disciplinary University: Towards Interversity and Transversity in Africa
Abstract The contemporary African university remains a colonial inheritance built on rigid disciplines, siloed knowledge, and the myth of value-free science. Yet the wicked problems of the 21st century—climate collapse, […] More
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in Career and Employment, Diaspora, Education and Academia, Innovation, Science and Technology, Self-help and InspirationFor Every Young African Woman Scrolling Through Tech Content, Tracy Is Proof That You Belong
The numbers stopped him mid-scroll. Across Sub-Saharan Africa, women hold just 8% of software development roles. In his own country, the figure was only 17% of all tech jobs. It […] More
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What Pope Leo XIV’s ecyclical on Artificial Intelligence means for Uganda.
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas [Magnificent Humanity] arrives as a luminous intervention in the res novae [new things] of our era. Continuing the lineage from Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum […] More
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The two faces of the Ugandan women
Last week, I was invited to attend a workshop on artificial intelligence (AI), a space where experts and professionals discussed how AI is transforming the dynamics of work. That same […] More
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in Building and Construction, Career and Employment, Education and Academia, Innovation, Science and Technology, Politics and Government, Transportation & Transport VesselsENGINEERS IN COMMAND: Why Uganda’s Vision 2040 Demands Technical Leadership
There is a question that rarely gets asked in Uganda’s political conversations, yet it may be the most consequential one of our times: Who should govern a nation that has […] More
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ALL THEORIES CAST IN NARROW CONFINES NEED RETHINKING WITHIN THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENT FRAMEWORK
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” — Aristotle, Metaphysics “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert […] More
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The Smartphone May Become Africa’s Greatest Film Studio
For more than a century, cinema has been defined by the architecture of the “Big Screen”: the dark theater, the fixed seat, the horizontal frame, and the economics of expensive […] More
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