By Our Reporter After an intense and knowledge-packed week, the 2022 Women in FinTech Hackathon, culminated in the Women in FinTech Summit on 16th September. The Women in FinTech Summit was characterized by colour and pomp as the top six teams were announced and rewarded. Even so, all the 20 Teams got their fair share […]
By Our Reporter After over a week of ideation, designing, developing and coding, the 2022 Women in FinTech Hackathon reached its climax on Thursday 15th September with the 20 teams presenting their final minimum viable products (MVPs) to the judges. Day five was very tense, and action packed as participants prepared for the final pitches. […]
By Our Reporter Day three of the ongoing Women in FinTech Hackathon was action-packed, with participants working on their products’ MVP phase one. In products’ development, MVP stands for minimum viable product. According to ProductPlan, a minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with enough features to attract early-adopter customers and validate a product idea […]
Kampala: Following the completion of both entry submission and review process, we are excited to unveil the 20 teams that are going to take part in the 2022 Women in FinTech Hackathon, scheduled for 10th to 15th September 2022. The 20 teams have been shortlisted from over 50 submissions received. The successful teams will work […]
Kampala, Uganda: When you empower one woman, you have in fact supported an entire family. This is no longer an optimistic opinion but a statement of fact. This is why HiPipo is keen to empower women with the required digital and financial inclusion skills so that they can go out there; innovate, prosper, earn and […]
By Our Reporter With the advancement in technology, there is always a need to upgrade from one smartphone to another, from one television set to another, from one camera to another, etc. For some, such upgrades are necessary in order to meet their daily commitments such as work, family, and community responsibilities while for others, […]
By Our Reporter In African culture, whenever a young man is going to marry his bride, it is taken as a collective responsibility of the community to make contributions toward the success of the celebrations. This is always done through wedding meetings where people converge and manually collect money, while others make pledges and fulfill […]
By Our Reporter When a peacock is lying down, one can hardly appreciate its beauty. But when it stands and its wings are fully spread, it reveals one of the most beautiful color patterns. The same applies to digital data. Because data is unstructured and is everywhere, very few people get to appreciate its significance. […]
By Our Reporter One of the biggest challenges faced by start-up businesses is poor record keeping, which results in the inability to make proper business analyses. The other key challenge is managing payments and money in general. It is these problems that prompted Emmanuel Kimaro, to start Bizzyn, a business management tool that enables users […]
By Our Reporter East Africa has one of the fastest-growing populations, predominated by women and youth. The same region has a ballooning informal sector economy including Boda Boda riders, market vendors, and salon operators among others. Unfortunately, the majority of these have little, somewhat no clue about financial discipline, especially the art of saving. It […]
