2024 Digital Impact Awards Africa voting is underway. Vote NOW.
On 17th October, HiPipo unveiled the nominees for the 2024 Digital Impact Awards Africa. The release of the nominees followed the completion of both the entries’ submission and verification processes that ran until Saturday 12th, October, 2024. The shortlisted nominees…
MoneySent is supporting inclusive Money Transfers and Payments. #40Days40FinTechs Season 5, Day 35.
Gone are the days when people struggled to send and receive money. The days when people had to queued up in long lines, armed with all manners of identification documents just to transact. Digital Financial Services have reduced most of…
Her Duuka is Empowering Women-Led MSMEs Through E-Commerce. #40Days40FinTechs Season 5, Day 34.
Different reports continue to show glaring gender imbalances in digital and financial inclusion with fewer women involved in this field compared to men yet women are the majority population and thus must be actively involved. This gender diversity gap can…
Full List of 2020 Digital Impact Awards Africa Winners.
The 2020 Digital Impact Awards Africa were successfully held on Friday 11th December at Mestil Hotel, Kampala; attracting C-Level Executives and senior Digital, Finance and IT executives. The Awards were a culmination of the Digital and Financial Inclusion Summit that…
Fintechs advised on Cyber Security.
Published by New Vision. With financial technology companies (fintechs) increasingly gaining prominence as facilitators of financial transactions and drivers of financial inclusion across markets, the rate of their vulnerability to cyber risks is also equally growing. Cyber risk is any…
#40days40Fintechs: Yapheh is offering salon services at a click of a button.
Our Reporter. If there is anything that the corona virus crisis has taught business people in Uganda and world over, it is the power of technology in providing goods and services. With the lockdowns that cut across nations as countries…
#40days40Fintechs: Nakasero Market Portal delivering groceries at your door step.
Our Reporter. When RG-Consult started working on the Nakasero Market portal that would allow people to order for groceries from the market and have them delivered to their residences, little did they know that it would become popular in a…
#40days40fintechs : Kanzu Code on the path to boosting financial inclusion.
By Our Reporter. Kanzu Code, a Financial Technology Company (FinTech) that builds inclusive financial tools is set for greater heights, following its enrollment in the 40-days-40-FinTechs project. The 40 days 40 fintechs project has given Kanzu Code further exposure to…
Registration for 40 DAYS 40 FINTECHs kicks-off.
KAMPALA, UGANDA – May 13, 2020. As part of its on-going Financial Inclusion efforts, HiPipo has today launched the 40 DAYS 40 FINTECHs initiative with online registration currently underway. 40 DAYS 40 FINTECHs, running from 25th May to 5th July…
Mojaloop Foundation set to boost Digital Payments in developing countries.
The availability and affordability of digital financial services (DFS) in developing countries is set to further improve with at-least 500 million people targeted as direct beneficiaries. This follows the recent formation and launch of the Mojaloop Foundation by global tech…
RE-THINKING FINANCIAL INCLUSION, EXPERTS advise.
Experts have advised financial institutions to rethink their digital strategies so as to have the targeted customers consume them. According to Dr Magie Kigozi, financial institutions need to do extensive research before jumping onto the bandwagon of digitization, with the…
Impactful Financial Inclusion efforts must be well researched – Experts
First Published by UBC TV. Impactful financial inclusion efforts must be well researched and packaged to suit the users especially the marginalized communities. By so doing, the African continent will take the lead in financial inclusion innovation; says Warren Carew…
Lead M-Pesa Architect to speak at 2019 Digital Impact Awards Africa summit.
Our Reporter. Leading Digital Financial Services (DFS) technologist, Warren Carew will be a keynote speaker at the 2019 Digital Impact Awards Africa (#DIAA2019), Africa’s most important gathering of C-Level Executives and senior Digital and IT executives, slated for 20th September…
#IncludeEveryone: Here are the #DIAA2019 nominees for Africa’s Best Digital Enabler
Internet World Stats (https://www.internetworldstats.com) notes that as of 30th June 2019, there were some 525 million internet users across Africa. On these, some 200 million used Facebook – the most popular Social Media site on the continent. Further, it is…
#IncludeEveryone: Which is Africa’s Best Content App? Here are the #DIAA2019 nominees.
In the new world, the audience is only thrilled by cost effective, convenient and demand satisfying products/services. People are on the go, very busy and always multitasking. These factual characteristics have made mobile phones some of the most sought after…
#IncludeEveryone: Who should be the #DIAA2019 Digital Brand of the Year?
Innovation, execution, publicity and perception are just four of the key qualities that may win one steadfast brand the #DIAA2019 Digital Brand of the Year honour. Digital Brand of the Year is the topmost accolade and is taken by a…
#IncludeEveryone: Here are the nominees for #DIAA2019 Best Digital Awareness Initiative.
With thousands of Ugandans unemployed; entrepreneurship and financial literacy projects are always a plus to the nation. Through such initiatives, more Ugandans are empowered and motivated to engage in self-employment and also make sound financial discussions. The last 12 months…
#IncludeEveryone: A quick look at the #DIAA2019 nominees for Best #DIAA2019 Best E-Service and E-Commerce.
It is a very fast world and time is of great essence. As such, thousands of Ugandans now prefer online transactions. Lately, services such as Uber, Safe Boda and Online Betting are very popular. In the same spirit, thousands of…
#IncludeEveryone: Here are the nominees for #DIAA2019 Best Digital Embrace by Non-Consumer Facing Brands.
It’s impossible to argue against digital media’s impact as an efficient and effective method for connecting brands and consumers. Efforts undertaken by consumer facing brands such as telecoms, online stores, fast foods, beauty products, hospitals and banks among others are…
#IncludeEveryone: A look at the nominees for #DIAA2019 Commendation for Trade Digitization.
Like the case of 2018 edition, the 2019 Digital Impact Awards Africa (#DIAA2019) has the Commendation for Trade Digitization category. The difference though is that while in 2018, this category had no nominees and the winner selected by the Awards…
#IncludeEveryone: The #DIAA2019 Award for the Best Digital Powered Campaign goes to?
Digital Media is fast growing as a strong media for marketing and public relations. A cost analysis for media (Radio, TV, Print and Digital) shows that Digital media has the lowest cost per a thousand, more measurable with good return…
#IncludeEveryone: Which of these #DIAA2019 Disruptive Innovation Nominees thrilled you?
“Every once in a while; a new technology, an old problem and a big idea turn into an innovation,” Dean Kamen once said. In the last one year, several innovations were introduced on the Ugandan market. In the digital and…
#IncludeEveryone: Here are the #DIAA2019 Best Brands on Social Media.
On 4th February 2004, Facebook (TheFacebook) was founded. On 14th February 2005, YouTube was born. On 21st March 2006, Twitter was launched. On 24th February 2009, WhatsApp came to life. On 6th October 2010, Instagram was rolled out. And the…
#IncludeEveryone: 5 Agencies battling for #DIAA2019 Best Digital Customer Experience for Utilities and Government Services Accolade.
In our review for #DIAA2019 Best Digital Customer Experience in Financial Services, Telecom and IT Sectors, we gave an elaborate definition for Customer Experience. Liferay – a digital experience software/platform defines Digital Customer Experience as the sum of digital interactions…
#IncludeEveryone: 5 Brands Nominated for #DIAA2019 Best Digital Customer Experience in Financial Services, Telecom and IT Sectors
Customer Service was a very popular phrase a few years ago. However, it has since been frozen out and replaced by Customer Experience (CX). Business Dictionary (www.businessdictionary.com ) defines Customer Experience as entirety of the interactions a customer has with…
#IncludeEveryone: Nominees for #DIAA2019 Best Community Banking.
Less than 10 million Bank accounts are currently operational in Uganda, compared to over 24 million Sim-cards in the market. With an estimated population of about 42 million people, the banking penetration is less than 25 per cent. Most of…
#IncludeEveryone: And the #DIAA2019 Accolade for Best Cards Payment goes to?
In the ‘bold new digital world’, time is a very scarce resource with people very busy with their lives and things that improve or excite them or both. As such, the lesser time one spends to accomplish a particular task,…
#IncludeEveryone: 5 payment enablers nominated in #DIAA2019 Best Mobile Payment category.
In the days of our great grandparents, forefathers and mothers, barter trade was the mode of payment. This involved the exchange of goods and services for other goods and services. Barter trade was replaced by ‘cash money’ that allowed people…
#IncludeEveryone: Here are the products competing in #DIAA2019 Best Saving and Lending category.
Almost every financial adviser will tell you that whenever you earn, you ought to save for the bad days tomorrow or the unforeseeable future. On the other hand, the hard economic times majority of the population lives in mean that…
#IncludeEveryone: #DIAA2019 review for Best Digital Banking nominees.
A simple internet search for the key words ‘Digital Banking’ will return multiple results, with several sources giving related but somewhat different definitions. According to www.avoka.com , Digital banking is the digitization (or moving online) of all the traditional banking…