By Dr Gilbert Saggia Everywhere we look, technology is being touted as the enabler of a new era of African agricultural prosperity. The exciting world of possibilities offered by blockchain, IoT, machine learning and the like has made companies, governments and policy-makers sit up and take notice of how such
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London-based digital money transfer firm SimbaPay, which was founded by a Kenyan duo, has launched an artificial intelligence powered chatbot service that enables international money remittance through short message service (SMS), the Nation reports. The new chatbot service, launched jointly with Lagos-based payments processor Interswitch, is run by a computer
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The Uganda Communications Commission has suspended licenses of 24 radio stations for promoting and advertising witchcraft content as well as aiding and abetting electronic fraud. UCC which is headed by Godfrey Mutabazi as Executive Director Tuesday tweeted on its official handle: “Proprietors of broadcasting stations ready @UCC_Official 4 a hearing
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The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) Executive Director Godfrey Mutabazi has told telecom firms to phase out the use of Airtime scratch cards, urging them to encourage their customers to use electronic airtime. In a letter dated March 23, 2018 obtained by Business Focus, UCC directs telecommunications companies to phase out
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the social network "made mistakes" that led to millions of Facebook users having their data exploited by a political consultancy. Cambridge Analytica is accused of improperly using the data on behalf of political clients. In a statement, Mr Zuckerberg said a "breach of
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After another public relations debacle for Facebook—in which a Trump-affiliated data firm was accused of improperly gleaning information on more than 50 million users—the company’s stock plummeted nearly 7%, through 1 pm Eastern Time on Monday, erasing $37 billion of market value. The decline had the biggest impact on Mark
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By Aloysious Kasoma A number of Ugandans are increasingly using phones for online transactions, a new Jumia report has revealed. According to the 2018 Report on Uganda’s Mobile Sector by Africa’s e-commerce company, 77% of customers who visited Jumia website last year used their mobile phones against 23% the number
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By Simon Carpenter A lot can happen in a year. And when that year is 2018, a year in which we stand on the threshold of an exponential future driven by technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, IoT and blockchain, the world may look very different by the end
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Huawei, one of the leading global ICT solutions providers is the corporate sponsor of the ongoing World Customs Organization’s 4th Authorized Economic Operator (‘AEO’) global conference hosted by Uganda Revenue Authority in Kampala. The 4th WCO global AEO conference is being hosted at Kampala Serena Hotel from 14th to the
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The MTN Group on March 8, 2018 released financial results for 2017. The results indicate that at 31 December 2017, MTN Group had 217 million subscribers based on the “new modernised definitions”. We will provide comparisons for full year 2018 using the new base. The results further indicate that MTN
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