About a month ago, my colleague Solome Lemma and I started looking at the international response campaigns to ebola in West Africa and got to wondering why all the attention was on international governments and NGOs.…
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Remit.ug featured in Masters thesis on mobile entrepreneurship by Guy Shmuel
September 12, 2014 Projects technologyGuy Samuel interviewed yours truly about our little remittances startup a few months back for his Masters thesis in International Relations at Institut Barcelona. Remit.ug is exemplary of the benefit that can be created when mobile…
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Dan Evans visited Hive Colab last year while I was in Uganda: Based on the maturity and business viability of many of the small tech firms that we have met with over our data collection visits,…
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Woke up early to the song of birds greeting each other and walked into the garden to snap a few shots. Every leaf was swaying heavily with balls of rain drops. A cool soft breeze swayed…
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After 18 months away from the field, it has been nice coming back to check on operations at Raintree Farms. The moringa powder facility is operational, but there is still a lot of work left to…
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Remit.ug is headed to Switzerland after winning Seedstars World Kampala
June 27, 2014 news Projects technologyPost by remit.ug. Congrats to our pitching team Stone Atwine and Collins Mugume who represented Redcore Ltd. Switzerland, here we come!…
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Small steps to building a better remittances engine to Uganda
April 19, 2014 Diaspora at work Economy Projects UgandaPost by remit.ug. Building something to solve a long-faced problem is one of the hardest and most satisfying things to undertake. Steve Jobs is famous for saying “we build things we want to use.” Remit.ug has…
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There are moments when being the owner of a struggling African agricultural startup can get overwhelming and it is all I can do to quit and run for the hills. Then there are the moments when…
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Why Venture Capital hasn’t taken off in Africa
February 25, 2014 Economy International Development Projects technologyI got this question in my email and thought the answer would make for a good post: I’m curious though, why hasn’t VC taken as strong of a hold in Africa? The last two decades it’s…
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Project UMPG: Creating sustainable jobs at the local level
January 9, 2014 Diaspora at work International Development ProjectsIt’s been a while since I updated everyone on how UMPG is doing. If you are new to this blog, see this post on what UMPG is. Basically, it’s my attempt to connect local farmers with…
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