
Daniel Mwesigwa




Mobile Money subscribers in Uganda now at 53% of the population
The number of mobile money users in Uganda is currently standing at 18.5 million registered accounts, from a mere 10,011 accounts 7 years ago. The mobile money startling figures are commensurate to 53% of Uganda's population, according to the preliminary census results. Prior to that,... Read More

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Why are we still hacking mobile apps — and not boda bodas?
The vacuum created by unreliable public utilities, high public demand for alternative services and ease of acquisition of better services birthed two products every African is quite conversant with. The mobile phone and the motorcycle. Not to regurgitate history or argue against/for which products that... Read More

Former Teehan+Lax partner: In startups, it’s not always about the money
What started as an ad hoc chat between a friend and I would later snowball into one of the biggest tweetstorms of the night by a global tech leader. Jeremy Bell’s startup in the works, wattage.io, has the most scintillating manifesto I had ever read.... Read More

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The frustrating state of design in Uganda and why we need a design union
These days it’s popular for companies to say that they want design, but that’s not what it is. It’s when everyone at a company is thinking about design – the writers, the administrators, the engineers, even the people selling the ads – not just the... Read More




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Now Open: Applications for $100m Tony Elumelu Foundation programme
For the next 57 days, with effect from 1st January 2015, Tony Elumelu Foundation is inviting for applications to its gargantuan Entrepreneurship programme. The program is intended to help up to 10,000 budding African entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into sustainable businesses. The foundation plans to provide... Read More

Kenyan university student jailed for insulting Uhuru via Facebook
Alan Wadi Okenga, a Kenyan university student and avid social media netizen has been sentenced to prison. The 25-year-old blogger, also known as lieutenant Wadi, was convicted of hate speech for posts he allegedly made about Uhuru Kenyatta's ethnic group. Wadi was sentenced to one... Read More




7 Startups built on AMPION Venture Bus Tunisia
After the Grand Final at Tunisia's most prestigious university ESPRIT, a jury of high-level investors, bankers and decision makers from the Maghreb region crowned the eventual winners TrashCash, ExTails and Citizen+. Following a campaign allover the continent, the AMPION Venture Bus Tunisia 2014 competition took... Read More


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WhatsApp now lets you disable read receipts a.k.a the blue ticks
Last week, WhatApp confounded many with the launch of a new version with updated notifications. The virally known blue ticks would show whether a message had been read or not, supplementing the already existing notifications ticks that show if a message had been delivered or... Read More

Here is why Rocket Internet scrapped Kaymu seller commissions
In Africa, Kaymu, an eBay-like marketplace, is one of the leading online businesses of the several startups under Rocket Internet's stewardship. As reported by Techmoran, Kaymu recently scrapped seller commissions on all products sold via its platform in Africa. Note that this only applies to... Read More
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