Kampala

As a part of the 2nd annual Google for Entrepreneurs Week, Google Uganda, in partnership with Mobile Monday and GBG Kampala, are excited to host Dalberg Global Development Advisors to present findings of their 2013 study and report on the impact of the internet in Africa. The keynote will be titled “The Impact of the Internet in Africa: The good, the bad, and the unfulfilled potential.” This report describes the role of the Internet on the socioeconomic development of Sub-Saharan Africa and its potential going forward. It builds atop a body of research that has sought to identify and measure …

You are cordially invited to join our next MoMo Kampala meeting to be held Monday 2nd September, hosted by Hive Colab starting 5:30 PM on the theme, Healthcare resources harmonization is critical: How do we achieve it? Uganda has been called the “perfect storm” for aid. In the past decade the number of health and development initiatives (public, private, social entrepreneurial, NGO, etc) has skyrocketed. There are over 10,000 NGOs in Uganda. The expansion of projects within the mHealth sector alone was so rapid and uncoordinated that the Ministry of Health was compelled to issue a moratorium on mHealth/eHealth projects …

You are cordially invited to participate at our next MoMo, hosted by Outbox, Monday 24th June from 5:30, a prelude on the eve of Pivot East. The informal parley by a speakers panel of key players and moderator will explore issues to do with building out the mobile app developer-entrepreneur start-up ecosystem in East Africa: Where are we now; what are its strengths, weaknesses; what is missing; where do we go from here, and how do we get there? We are inviting business leaders within the mobile entrepreneurship space, from neighbouring countries and abroad, to share their views, and expect …

You are cordially invited to participate at our next MoMo mHealth meeting to be hosted by Hive Colab Monday 29th April starting 5:30 PM. Mobile phone ownership by health facility workers is quickly becoming universal. With advances in the electronic management of human resources and powerful SMS communications tools, it is now possible to eliminate the traditional bottlenecks of distance and time. Whether mobilizing health workers for an immunization campaign, polling them on whether the most recent delivery of medicines arrived, or simply connecting them with their District supervisors to answer basic questions, mobile phones have already changed the way in …

You are cordially invited to attend MoMo Kampala’s next meeting on the theme How can ICT help farmers?, to be hosted by Victoria University, on Monday 11th February starting 5:30 PM. Agriculture is critical to Ugandans — probably our most important sector.  Almost 70 percent of Ugandan households farm for their livelihoods.  Our farmers’ productivity is far lower than it could be for a variety of reasons, many out of their control.  But things can improve if farmers know about better cropping techniques, know more about what types of seeds and fertilizers to use, and what do to if a …

“The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed” You are cordially invited to attend MoMo Kampala’s next meeting to be hosted by Hive Colab, catering sponsored by Smile Telecom, at the Hive on Monday 19th November starting 5:30 PM. Our panel of speakers will help us to visualize the possibilities, in our increasingly connected world, brought to us by broadband. These include new ways of working, tools that enable us to Work from home, video conferencing, cloud based storage and backup. How will images and sounds be brought to us by faster Internet to stimulate our minds …

You are cordially invited to How technologies can serve the poetics and politics of everyday life, hosted and sponsored by Victoria University Monday 8th October. Technology is usually framed in terms of efficiency and productivity. Happily, life has much more to offer, and paying attention to the particular, the ephemeral, and the contentious, can lead to significant innovation. The Center for Civic Media built technologies for geographic communities, and resulted in well-known enterprises such as publiclaboratory.org andsourcemap.com. His other research group, the Computing Culture group, focused on technologies of poetry and politics. Prof Chris Csikszentmihalyi will describe the work of …

You are cordially invited to Get the vision: Geospatial Infrastructure Points the Way to more Efficient Development, to be hosted by Outbox on Monday 13 August starting 5:30 PM. The aim of our next MoMo Kampala meeting is to help us to better appreciate the concept of geospatial information and its relevance to our daily lives. Outbox Hub, Soliz House, 4th Floor Lumumba Avenue, Kampala, Uganda Monday, August 13, 2012 at 5:30 PM Please Register in Advance Here. Do you have any idea how tremendously valuable geospatial information is to national development and planning? Indeed it is a powerful force …

You are cordially invited to MoMo Kampala’s next meeting  on the theme, Can innovative mHealth strategies overcome bottlenecks in delivery of healthcare in Uganda? Hive Colab Monday 25th June, starting 5:30 PM To ensure healthy outcomes in underserved communities, households need to be able to access essential health, HIV and nutrition information and services for pregnant mothers and their children along with the continuum-of-care. To bridge the access gap to basic healthcare, the Ministry of Health is increasingly reliant upon front-line Community Health Workers to link mothers & their children to the larger healthcare system. Mobile technologies offer an unprecedented opportunity to address longstanding bottlenecks that …

You are cordially invited to attend Mobile Monday Kampala’s Startup Showcase to be hosted by Victoria University on Monday 14th May starting at 5:30 PM.  Ten startups will each be presenting a five-minute elevator pitch about their products. After the pitches our Chair and Moderator will ask pertinent questions, and then we will pass the cordless mike around to our delegates for further questions and comments. See below the list of ten companies, click here to download/view the Programme .pdf Please register early as seats will be at a premium! http://momokampalastartupshowcase.eventbrite.com/ Looking forward to another scintillating Mobile Monday Kampala.  Thanks …