Live from Uganda

As a keen follower of Copyright and Intellectual Property issues I was very much excited when I heard about the President's efforts to copyright a song entitled  read more »

“A Primer of Oil Well drilling” by Ron Baker, screamed the headline of the book that a middle aged man was reading on a flight from Johannesburgh to Entebbe. Right behind him was another equally middle aged man reading another book on Oil.  read more »

October 29th 2010 was just another day for the average Ugandan but in the circles of the communications industry, this is the day when for the first time ever, an event was hosted to honor leading innovators in the communications sector.  read more »

In the past month, the Ugandan ICT fraternity has been filled with discussions regarding the newly formed National Information Technology Authority (NITA-U). A number of issues have been raised regarding the constitution of the Board, the planned abrogation of the Act when appointing the Executive Director, the conflict of interest among some of the directors appointed onto the board e.t.c.  read more »

A while back on this blog, I wrote about the need for Uganda to create a Digital Army . While I believe that one can not do away with the need for the physical man to man way of carrying out intelligence activities, it is more than necessary lately to integrate ICTs in information gathering.  read more »

“Gone are the days when men were men and used to write their own device drivers” by Linus Torvalds. In my early days of appreciating Open Source Software, I used to take pride in such bravado statements considering that I was an emerging techie who was always fiddling with software.  read more »

The month of August was such an interesting month for the ICT fraternity in Uganda. This is when after a long wait, many of us were hoping to start reaping from the much acclaimed high bandwidth fibre connectivity from SEACOM. Many thought that by now, we would probably be paying US$ 700 for 1MB connectivity to the ISP.  read more »

Uganda is making very impressive progress in terms of spreading IT skills among the current and future workforce.  read more »

Uganda is making very impressive progress in terms of spreading IT skills among the current and future workforce.  read more »

In October 2008 I was invited by the IEEE to be part of the early participants' team of the Humanitarian Technology Challenge (HTC). Its aim is to develop and implement technological responses to selected humanitarian challenges in developing countries.  read more »