COVID-19: Ecobank and Google collaborate to support children with e-learning.

The collaboration aims to help children study online and stay on top of their education. Ecobank Group, the pan-African Bank, is leveraging its distribution and partner networks to raise awareness of literacy apps in the Google Play Store to support the education of children who are at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 continues to affect everyone’s lives,…

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UNDP to provide smartphones, airtime and data to Ugandan market vendors.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with Jumia Uganda, an e-commerce company, have launched an online platform to enable small and medium enterprises to connect with consumers during physical distancing measures. UNDP will provide smartphones, airtime, and data to be used by market vendors while Jumia Food will help via its dedicated app and website ordering platform that includes…

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Oil and Tourism discussion – Amos Wekesa.

Before I write something about the above subject, I want to say, just over a month ago, I was asked to be a member of the board Uganda European Union business forum. The board has 3 business people who are Patrick Bitature, Barbra Mulwana and myself and it’s the first time this has happened. The formation of such a board…

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