Growth of ICT SMEs in Uganda

Soon after participating on the G-Uganda local panel during the developer days in September, Today I participate in a discussion involving Uganda's ICT entrepreneur leaders. The 90 minute session, taking place at the HIVE COLLAB, will focus on issues related to Growth of ICT SMEs in Uganda. I hope this goes a long way in enabling organisations and other enterpreneurs in getting an approach to helping ICT enterpreneurs in Uganda.

Makerere GTUG

This year has seen the initiation of the Makerere GTUG (Google Technology User Group). The group brings together students interested in learning more about Google Technologies, sharing and developing with them. The group will launch in August of this, on the Faculty of Computing open day and will feature a code clinic from a member of the Google Africa Team. Join and be a part of this.

www.makerere-gtug.org

Richard Zulu
Manager GTUG Kampala

Datamart

Time Information Company has successfully implemented it's datahosting division known as datamart. The division is on the url http://datamart.co.ug

The company is yet to release it's prices and juicy packages with space enough to form a cloud for Ugandans. Stay tuned.

http://datamart.co.ug

Kampala-GTUG

This week will see the Launch of Kampala GTUG at the Google Offices Uganda on saturday 27th March.
Kampala GTUG is managed by Oluka of Appafrica Labs Uganda. A GTUG is one where a developer can learn how to use Google technologies ranging from google AJAX APIs,Google Data APIs, Google Web Toolkit among others.

Hope to see you there.

Directions to Google Offices

Time Information Company

Time Information Company is the leading Web design and Information Company creating custom web designs.As a full service interactive firm, we offer a wide range of award winning services, including Web design, information architecture, PHP Web application development, Web marketing, Flash animation, E-commerce, SEO optimisation, Google Adsense and more. Time is a start-up in Uganda whose focus is on timely information provision. Good information must be reliable, useable, accessible but also TIMELY Therefore, time is out to organise information moreso in the developing countries and deliver it on time. The company website is www.time.co.ug Information is of great importance in this day and era, therefore Africa as a whole should not miss out because of lack of information sources.

Richard Zulu Bio:

Richard Zulu is a third year student currently pursuing a Bachelors In Information Technology at Makerere University. He is a Ugandan by Nationality and currently volunteering with the Directorate of ICT support at Makerere University as a Network Administrator.

He participated in a Community Outreach programme that the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Makerere University was running under the NUFFIC project in partnership with the Radboud University in August 2009.

Community Outreach Project Report here

Richard was among six students chosen by Google Africa to be Ambassadors within Makerere University.

He has a passion in web technologies and the internet. He strongly believes that upon graduation, he can build on his skills so as to become a nice web developer but at the same time use some of his programming knowledge in Java to come up with some nice web apps. Richard realises the need of integrating the web and the mobile phone (which has the highest rate of penetration in Africa)to address many of the problems of information access to Africans which can enable a lot of business opportunities and economic development.


Richard attended Namilyango College for his Advanced and Ordinary Level education where he was a Headboy for the year 2006. Before that, He served as a computer lab prefect for the years 2002-2004 because of his passion for computers then.

Team Ubude for Imagine cup 2010

Things just got better at Ubude team camp. Ubude is one of the teams representing Uganda at the Microsoft Imagine cup 2010 bound to take place in Poland. The team comprising of Richard Zulu and Brian Ochan (with two more slots to be filled) hopes to solve some of Africa's problems through this competition.

The team will take a purely Microsoft approach to this competition. Watch this space for information on what Ubude is doing. Individuals interested in this competition can sign up at http://www.imaginecup.com

Good Luck Ubude.

Richard Zulu