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More than 86% of businesses to use Artificial Intelligence by 2025
By 2025, more than 86% of businesses and organizations will use Artificial Intelligence, and data utilization will reach 80%. AI services will be everywhere, creating an intelligent world that will reveal endless vistas of opportunity, according to a research by Huawei, a global leading ICT solutions provider. The latest research titled Global Connectivity Index (GCI) […]
More farmers embracing ICT for extension services new report reveals
A new report from Wefarm one of the world largest farmer to farmer digital network indicates that 1.1 Million farmers both in Uganda and Kenya are embracing the use of ICT in accessing Agricultural Extension services. According to the report, for the first time, farmers have used the platform to ask and get answered more than […]
Prudential teaches 500 Uganda School Children how to save
About 50 Prudential Uganda staff and agents have volunteered a total of 100 hours in six weeks to teach sound financial literacy tips to Primary School Children of Nakasero Primary and Kampala Junior Schools. The six weeks programme, that was dubbed Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids, introduced the children to highly rated, award-winning financial concepts of […]
South Africa joins Uganda and Kenya, ratifies the Tripartite Free Trade Area
South Africa has ratified the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement becoming the Fourth member state to do so after Egypt, Uganda and Kenya. This was according to a notification sent early this week, by the South African Government to the Chair of the Tripartite Task Force, Chileshe Kapwepwe, who is the Secretary General of COMESA. “This […]
Liquid Telecom partners with Microsoft to host first cloud event in Uganda
Liquid Telecom in partnership with Microsoft is set to host an Azure Accelerator Conference in Kampala aimed at improving and accelerating the use of cloud services across Africa. The Azure Accelerator Conference is a customer focused event that provides its customers with a cloud learning platform and the opportunity to engage one-on-one with Liquid Telecom […]
IT experts welcome Uganda’s first ever Private Data Centre
James Saaka, the Executive Director of National Information and Technology Authority (NITA-U) has described the planned Raxio Data Centre, to be built at Namanve Industrial Park as a “brilliant opportunity” for especially Uganda’s Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and innovators to “lower their cost of IT investments”, allowing them to be competitive in the market. “For […]
Vatican confirms Pope Francis’ second visit to Uganda
The Holy Catholic Father Pope Francis will re-visit Uganda next year in July, East African Business Week can exclusively confirm. The Pope has accepted the invitation extended to him by a bloc of African Catholic bishops, the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) which will converge in Uganda to celebrate the fiftieth […]
Makerere University to host first ever Geopolitics Conference
Makerere University will on Friday 27th and Saturday 27th October 2018 play host to a two-day open, vibrant public debate on world geopolitics dubbed the Geopolitics of Kampala. Inspired by the successful “les géopolitiques de Nantes” in France, the conference aims at creating an interactive and dynamic platform for dialogue and free exchange of ideas […]
Africa’s travel growth exceeds expectations
International tourist arrivals grew 6% in the first four months of 2018, compared to the same period last year, not only continuing the strong 2017 trend but exceeding UNWTO’s forecast for 2018. The UNWTO’s panel of experts described this situation as the most optimistic they’d seen in a decade and declared that they were particularly […]
Tanzania tour operators want new tourism policy
Tanzania’s tourism is facing a pricing crisis causing the frustration of a multi-billion-dollar industry that wants to grow by leaps and bounds. Key players say that whereas tour operators usually calculate the prices of package holidays based on the market trends, the country’s policies are inconsistent and have been a driving factor on rate fluctuations. […]
South Africa Filmmaker wins Discovery Channel “Don’t Stop Wondering” award
Following the 2017 success, Discovery Channel partnered with the seventh annual Jozi Film Festival once again to spark viewers’ curiosity with new, exciting and unique African stories with The Discovery Channel “Don’t Stop Wondering Award”. Discovery Channel’s “Don’t Stop Wondering Award” for 2018 has been awarded to a filmmaker, Didi Exelby from Cape Town, South […]
Uganda Cocoa farmers decry influx of fake seedlings on market
Cocoa farmers in Uganda are up in arms after they noticed an increase in fake Cocoa seedlings on the market which they say are being supplied by the Government-backed programme of Operation Wealth Creation. “The government is supporting the cocoa sector by supplying cocoa planting materials to farmers, however, the seedlings being supplied are of […]