Tag Archives: Digital

    NRM MANIFESTO WEEK |  As soon as the Science and Technology ministry was established in June 2016, an Innovation Fund was created. Since 2016 the ministry’s Innovation Fund has so far received a budgetary allocation of Shs50 billion. Armed with this money each year, the Ministry has been …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Stanbic Bank Uganda has launched an end-to-end digitalized trading platform dubbed “Quantum Trade” to enable its customers access import letters of credit and domestic guarantees quickly within few hours, it said on April 06. The online platform will facilitate trade and allow customers receive …

Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | President Uhuru Kenyatta has hailed the contribution of digital technologies to Kenya’s transformation saying ICTs are helping the country to create employment opportunities for its youth and enhance delivery of public services. The president observed that digital technologies have enabled African governments and the …

ABSA wins big at 2020 Global Retail Banking Innovation Awards Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The role of Absa Group Limited’s Regional Operations (ARO) in using technology and coming up with strategic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, have earned them a top Global Retail Banking Innovation Award. Absa Group …

📌Digital Impact Awards Africa ➡ Best Bank on Social Media ➡ Card Payment Excellence award ➡ Digital Powered Campaign (National School Championships) Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Stanbic Bank Uganda has won awards in three categories at the 2020 Digital Impact Awards Africa that were in the past week …

  COMMENT | VIMAL KUMAR |  What is now very clear, is that in terms of digital innovation and progress, we have had to compress several years of evolution into a very short space of time as everyone has been forced to adapt to managing businesses remotely and the deployment …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 73% of students in higher institutions of learning have found the new learning methods employed during the lockdown harder than conventional studying methods. Several institutions switched from the four-walled classrooms and adopted remote collaboration tools and learning management systems after the …

London, United Kingdom | AFP |  Before entering coronavirus lockdown with the rest of Britain in March, 73-year-old Pamela Cox had never shopped or banked online. Zoom was something you did with a camera lens. Now the retiree is one of many in her generation finding a new IT proficiency later …

Doha, Qatar | AFP | Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera has travelled a long and bumpy road from the early 2000s when it was best known for airing tapes of former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. It now cultivates a loyal youth audience on social media alongside the satellite channels which …

Paris, France | AFP | Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump have agreed to extend negotiations on a dispute over a French tax on digital giants to the end of the year, postponing Washington’s threat of sanctions against Paris, a French diplomatic source said Monday. The source said the French and …