User Experience and the Smartphone The objective of The GSMA mWomen Design Challenge: Redefining the User Experience is to meet the needs of resource-poor women by improving the smartphone user experience. Designers, programmers and innovators of all kinds are invited to consider the user experience of resource-poor women to reimagine a smartphone’s core user interface to be more intuitive and accessible. The more a woman can use her phone, the …
Open Data/Development
the views here are mine and only mine! by Barbara Birungi Open Development, Open Data, most of us have a different interpretation to the words which is totally fine because it has many different faces, meaning to different people. Last week I attended the Open Knowledge Festival (OKFest) organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation in Helsinki Finland. MY interest and reason for attending was to find out as much as …
Women of Wikipedia edit planned
Women of Wikipedia edit planned The event has been organised as part of annual celebrations to celebrate the work of Ada Lovelace Continue reading the main story Related Stories “I’m a Wikipedian”Watch Valued exposure: Ada Lovelace Day The Wikipedia profiles of women in technology and engineering will be updated at an “edit-a-thon” held at the Royal Society next month. The profiles chosen to be updated will all be of historical …
On being a mum and a career woman
SOrry its long 🙂 When I left university my priorities where different from what they are today, I was ready to find a great job, go for my masters and attain a phd , climb career ladders and be in a top position at the company , and in between fixed a husband and family. I got the job that I am passionate about ( which I think is key …
A different approach to getting young girls interested In ICT in Uganda (this is just my view)
First of all great work to the people that came up with the curriculum for ICT in primary and secondary schools in Uganda, so we have computers in most our schools and we endeavor to teach the whole curriculum with in the term, when students sit exams they excel, but when it comes to every day practice they are terrible and don’t seem to know what they are doing. Most …
A geekgirl, how I got interested in Tech
A geekgirl, how I got interested in Tech I started my primary school way back in 1992 and by then computers in Uganda was a luxury for the extremely rich, we never had a computer home as mine is a humble background. I first saw a computer in 1996 when our school opened up a computer lab, I used this lab once in my life, during this lesson the teacher …
African women must use tech to change business
this view point was written for BBC Viewpoint by Barbara BirungiDirector of Hivecolab Time to get hands-on business experience I believe that when you educate a woman, you educate a nation – because that one woman will share what she has learnt with other women and pass it on to the generations below hers. This is why it’s so important that women are taught how to integrate technology into their …