Tech

National ID Cards came to life with prior registration exercises in 2013 after a rule by the East African Community, and since then owning a National ID Card became an ultimate goal for every citizen to achieve. The National Information and Registration Authority (NIRA) is a Gov't agency that creates, issues and approves all National ID Cards with plans to add more features to the so far super effective mode of identification.

On 1st July 2018, the Minister of Finance announced a new entry to the national budget spicers and that was OTT tax widely known as Social media tax since its directly levied on major gossip platforms. The Move had been previously approved by Members of Parliament who voted in the right path of having platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and the likes tune the overall URA income with atleast a 1% increase spike.

Uganda’s ICT and National Guidance minister, Honourable Frank Tumwebaze has today lauded Huawei for its consistency in skilling and nurturing ICT talent. He made the remarks during the commissioning of Huawei’s ICT Academy at Makerere University. With an inclusion of seed for thr futreue finalists to the draw, the minister flagged off the winning team for a 2-week intense technological training from various Chinese universities.

The National Information Technology Authority (NITA) is a Government agency that not only survived the 2018 agency scrap off but also strengthened its position as the initial igniter of a well-connected country. Through its National backbone, NITA-U has plans of making Internet connectivity fully available in each and every corner of the pearl of Africa without forgetting the non-4G coverage areas.

Twitter is the 2nd most popular social media platform on a global scale after Facebook. The bluebird has always put the security and desires of its users to the front from day 1, unlike any other social media platform. For a fact, Twitter is one those non-beginner social media platforms one can signup with, but that will soon change with amazing features from a dark mode to now an ability to retweet content with Videos, Images, and GIFs.

SafeBoda is a boda hailing firm that has made itself a name as the only startup to beat Uber in its strong hold zones. In fact, if SafeBoda had a taxi hailing wing, it would beat the duo counterpart with a slight margin in the trip rates. As a matter of fact, SafeBoda has now expanded its wings a notch higher to the Western part of Africa before finishing its East African domination which is now pending with Rwanda and Tanzania uncovered