If you have been to Mulago hospital or another government aided health center in this country you can relate to this blog.  The attitude towards work displayed by most medical personnel in this country would make a young person looking for career options in this field run to other professions,  Sure there is  the low and late pay and heavy work shifts, poor living conditions and lack of enough equipment …

The  New WITU Business Hub. There is a tremendous technological gender gap in Uganda with few women tech entrepreneurs and professionals which has greatly been flamed to by social cultural practices of gendering jobs, lack of role models, lack of self esteem and confidence thus leading to many young women not succeeding at technology careers and business. Right from childhood girl’s education is not considered as important as that of …

Interview of Barbara Birungi © Barbara Birungi, Founder of Women in Technology Uganda (WITU) and Executive Director of Hive Colab in Uganda ‘If more women owned mobile phones, there would be more development’ In 2010, Barbara Birungi founded Women in Technology Uganda. This NGO provides networking, training, mentoring and partnering to increase the number of women in technological fields. Ms Birungi is also Executive Director of Hive Colab, a business …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …