David Okwii

I blogged about five technologies that work in the global north but don't work in Uganda among which included apple products - what I called "iThings" and gave reasons for that. Siri is certainly an Apple product, I would be contradicting myself by stating that... Read More

Here are some facts. As of the year 2011, Uganda reached 14 million Mobile subscribers according to the site itnewsafrica.com. There about 3.2 million internet users as of the year 2010 according to the internetworldstats.com. Which leads me to make an intelligent estimation that for... Read More

Do you remember that MTN Uganda TV Ad that had a city tycoon with two phones talking endlessly conducting business with his suppliers? Probably not, but before the telecom giant - MTN opened shop in 1998 in Kampala, a handful of people could afford mobile... Read More

I've been gladly using my computer at work to access my emails. Even more, once I got my android phone equipped with the official Gmail app, I wondered how else I can easily access my email on the go, any time anywhere until I learnt... Read More

Mobile money is one those innovations  that we call disruptive technologies. Disruptive in the sense that it challenges the status quo or changes the way that we have come to understand something. Banking is one of the oldest businesses in the world.  Through banks, people... Read More

Over the years, Africa has had a wave of changes in information technology and communication. There has been various technologies that have forever changed the the way that people communicate and share information. From postal mail, to television, newspapers, magazines to the mighty Internet. None... Read More

Accessing email on your mobile device is currently the most frustrating thing anyone can do with their devices. There are no standards, the screens are small, data speeds are slow and the user experience is simply annoying. However, Email is now part of us and... Read More

The mobile phone is central to a lot of African technological developments and with our computer glasses, we can pretty much do what anybody else does on a fully fledged computer. Much as we are not yet there, with today's phone hardware and applications, one... Read More