Boarding schools’ students always need some upkeep. Commonly know as ‘Pocket Money’, these funds enable them to restock their ‘School Grab’, affordable to buy eats at their canteens, contribute church tithe and pay for some school activities such as sports, parties and outings. Traditionally, this money has always been kept by the students directly or […]
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A group of Young Ugandans are determined to revolutionize Savings and Investments through a digital platform named Eazy Sacco. According to Ben Okello Mwaka, the Founder and CEO of this platform, Eazy Sacco is a FinTech solution that concentrates on savings and investments for the unbanked and underserved communities. “The idea of Eazy Sacco came […]
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Informal Women Traders and Youth are some of the most unserved and underserved people in matters digital and finance. For finance particularly, this is so because most Informal Women and Youth don’t have collateral security to use to access credit plus majority of their businesses are undocumented thus lack proper financial records and data to […]
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Since time immemorial, many people have been investing in tangible assets mainly, land, houses, automotives, and animals. But with technology, investment options have expanded with Treasury Bills, Bonds, Equity and Shares among others added to a list of areas of investment. Among the companies that are providing technology supported investment in Uganda is XENO. “We […]
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Interaction between AgriTech and FinTech is key to ensuring that Farmers can benefit more from Agriculture. Well as AgriTech focuses mainly on introducing technology in to agriculture, integration with FinTech (financial technology) moves this a notch higher as it doesn’t only make farmers adopt technology for farming but also ensures that they are able to […]
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Gone are the days when people struggled to send and receive money. The days when people had to queued up in long lines, armed with all manners of identification documents just to transact. Digital Financial Services have reduced most of these inconveniences as people are now able to send and receive money on their phones, […]
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Different reports continue to show glaring gender imbalances in digital and financial inclusion with fewer women involved in this field compared to men yet women are the majority population and thus must be actively involved. This gender diversity gap can only be closed with deliberate affirmative action that enables women to not only develop products […]
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Informal cross border trade is one of the oldest forms of trade across Africa. It employs millions of people majority of them being women and youth. Research carried out by the African Development Bank (AfDB) shows that cross-border trade is a source of income to millions of people across the African continent. Uganda alone has […]
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SchoolPal; an education management system is committed to using technology to transform education and general school life. This is according to its founder and CEO – Shane Senyonga. “At SchoolPal, we deliver Education management solutions from a dashboard we give to schools and an APP that parents use to access school details for their children. […]
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Farmers and generally people living in rural areas have over the years been the most unserved when it comes to access to financial services. This is particularly because they usually don’t have financial records, credit history and business data to back their requests for finances. However, technology is changing this as it is allowing thousands […]
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