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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Access to affordable credit is a big pain point for individuals and businesses alike. Majority that need loans don’t qualify to access them through formal institutions due to institutional red tape and absence of requirements such as collateral and guarantors. These end up relaying on traditional money lenders who in their nature are exploitative. Nonetheless, […]
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For start-ups, micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs), proceeds from sales are in many cases immediately injected back in to the operations of the business. Many never have a luxury of having huge capital to keep them running for weeks, in to months like big players are able to. As such, such businesses always […]
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For Uganda to achieve last mile financial inclusion, there must be special focus on the unserved and underserved. This means that there must be equitable distribution and access to financial services. Several innovators have developed and rolled out solutions aimed at democratizing savings and borrowing. But more efforts are needed if financial inclusion is to […]
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Not a day passes without an event in Uganda. It is either a music, dance and drama show or a themed party, or a sports activity or a professional gathering or cultural gathering, name it. For all these events, there is one unique problem; the pain involved in accessing tickets. Save for a few events, […]
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