The American Tower Corporation (ATC) plans to construct over 100 digital villages in major towns across the country. ATC, the American based company majoring in constructing and managing telecom masts, announced this development last week at the handover ceremony of the ICT Learning Centre to Gaddafi Mosque, Old Kampala. ATC
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By AFP Singapore will next week begin a public trial of driverless buses that can be booked with an app, part of ambitions to roll out autonomous vehicles across the city-state. Well-organised and high-tech, Singapore has become a testbed for self-driving vehicles, developing home-grown technology and inviting foreign companies to
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China based technology company, Huawei has broken silence on claims that the Uganda government is using it to spy on opposition politicians especially Kyandondo East MP, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. In a statement dated August 15, 2019, Huawei completely rejects the Wall Street Journal's “unfounded and inaccurate allegations against
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The Cooper Motor Corporation (CMC), the exclusive distributor for Ford in Uganda, has launched the new Ford EcoSport compact Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV). The car was unveiled at CMC head offices in Kampala on Wednesday. CMC says the Ford EcoSport offers customers more style, compatibility and choice-blending rugged SUV functionality
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Two South African pilots (in featured photo) behind a project that saw teenage students fly a homemade aircraft across Africa have been killed in a plane crash in western Tanzania. Des Werner and Werner Froneman were in a support plane following the teenagers that went down in Tabora region. They
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (in featured photo) has justified the government’s right to shut down the internet, saying it is done to save lives. “Internet is not water, internet is not air,” he told journalists in the capital, Addis Ababa on Thursday as he defended the closure of internet
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On 22 September 2018, an email was sent to the Inspector General of Government (IGG) Public Relations office from one Mwebe Enock Bakaki through the Inspectorate’s web portal (website). “If I get a gun, I will kill that stupid Musoga woman Mulyagonja for making my family to suffer when she
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Concerned government institutions have come together to enforce legal obligations and standards in the film industry, giving those involved two months to clean up their act or face the music. At a joint sensitization workshop held at Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) offices on 01 August 2019, the Media Council, Uganda
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By Bemanya Twebaze In today’s changing world where clients are demanding faster, efficient and timely services, innovation in service delivery has taken center stage at Uganda Registration Services Bureau. One of the leading processes driving innovation especially for registration services is technology. The role that technology plays has enabled many
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Uganda’s mobile money market continues to grow every passing day. Having been introduced about a decade ago, mobile money revolutionized the country’s financial sector. The latest figures from Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) indicate that the number of Mobile money registered subscribers grew to 24,472,033 in Quarter 4 of 2018, up
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