Digital Inclusion – Page 5 – Digital Impact Awards Africa

deejaynick20 July 22, 2022 Cybersecurity, Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

Little has transformed from a ride-hailing platform to a super APP for your daily needs

Our Reporters. At the start of July 2016, news broke that two Tech giants had come together and devised an African Transport solution. The Tech Giants were Craft Silicon and Safaricom. The Transport solution was Little Cab; a ride-hailing APP…

deejaynick20 July 21, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

Cellulant is processing digital payments worth billions of dollars per year across Africa

Our Reporter. In 2001, two young African men from opposite ends of the continent sat across each other at a dinner table and had a discussion over a cup of coffee. So intense was the conversation that problem-solving models were…

deejaynick20 July 20, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

FinTech Group is providing digital solutions to over 200 Institutions in Africa

Our reporter. FinTech Uganda Limited, a subsidiary of FinTech Group is one of the oldest financial technology companies in Africa with a variety of fully integrated models that assist over 240 financial institutions across Africa to manage payments and collections,…

deejaynick20 July 19, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

Medmoo is using FinTech to extend daily fuel loans to Lira Boda Boda riders

Our Reporter. At the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Denis Orech and two friends from Lira University decided to devise means of delivering goods and services to people in Lira town who were trapped in their homes due…

deejaynick20 July 18, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

Xente is using FinTech to empower businesses and enable payments

Our Reporter. The outbreak of Covid-19 has forced many businesses to migrate from the manual way of doing things to digital solutions. Businesses that used to manage their expenses manually using cash or cheques are now using mobile money…

deejaynick20 July 17, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, News

2ambale is digitizing fashion and art

Our Reporter. Uganda has a huge but largely underdeveloped fashion industry. According to a November 2020 article by The East African newspaper, “Uganda’s fashion industry is characterized by struggling ventures, semi-professional small-scale production, and lack of infrastructure, institutions and government…

deejaynick20 July 16, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

Mfuko Plus is helping over 70 savings and credit-giving institutions serve their customers better

Our Reporter. Enrolling members into savings, and investment clubs is a key stage in operationalizing such organizations. But when this is done, the harder part is handling operations, which includes keeping customers’ deposits safe, managing the risks that come with…

deejaynick20 July 15, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

PayTota is championing voice response technology for digital payments

Our Reporter. The world is slowly migrating into a cash-lite and eventually a cashless global economy where all transactions are done without the exchange of cash. As a result, more financial technology companies (FinTechs) are emerging with a variety of…

deejaynick20 July 14, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

MFS Africa is facilitating digital financial transactions in over 34 countries

Our Reporter. One of the biggest bottlenecks of transferring funds from one country to another is the cost involved, especially if it involves different networks. It is a problem that MFS Africa; a digital payments hub, is keen on…

deejaynick20 July 13, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, News

Over a million people benefit from FutureLink Technologies’ Financial Services

Our Reporter. FutureLink Technologies is a community-driven marketplace for affordable financial services. It is licensed by the Bank of Uganda as a digital national payment systems operator. They work to enhance the financial resilience of Africa’s low and middle-income earners…

deejaynick20 July 12, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

EzyAgric is using FinTech to enable over 300,000 farmers to get access to genuine agricultural information, inputs, and markets

Our Reporter. Agriculture remains Uganda’s top employer, with more than 60 percent of the population involved in agricultural activities. Despite this statistic, the industry is largely underfunded, many farm inputs are counterfeited and there is little support for harvest handling…

deejaynick20 July 11, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

True African uses FinTech to bail out unbanked rural Ugandans

Our Reporter. True African is with no doubt among the legends of digital financial services in Uganda. They were among the pioneers of short messages (SMS) and later mobile banking in Uganda working with Nile Bank to transfer funds from…

deejaynick20 July 10, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, News

Linmart is connecting businesses to a free online market

Our Reporter. Linmart is an online marketplace that links manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers and shoppers to one platform called a MARKET for convenient, timely and cost-effective transactions. Started in October 2021, Linmart is an easy-to-use product where vendors sign-up for…

deejaynick20 July 9, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

Buladde is evolving from ‘analogue’ to digital financial services

Our Reporter. The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 was projected to be a short-term disruption but for some financial firms, it has triggered long-term changes on how to do business. Buladde Financial Services is among the several…

deejaynick20 July 7, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, News

Jumia brings E-commerce, Logistics, and Payments under one roof

Our Reporter. When Uganda, just like most parts of the world was put into a total lockdown following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, most businesses were forced to either digitize their services or risk an abrupt closure. But for…

deejaynick20 July 6, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

SafeBoda has transitioned into a Super Transport and FinTech APP

Our Reporter. The word ‘SafeBoda’ is now a household name for the majority of Ugandans who especially use Boda Bodas – motorcycles for movement in Kampala Metropolitan region. For many Ugandans, riding on a boda boda used to be an…

deejaynick20 July 5, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

Flutterwave is creating endless possibilities for businesses through seamless payments

Our Reporter. In 2021, Flutterwave received worldwide recognition for becoming an African FinTech Unicorn. By definition, a unicorn company is a startup with a valuation of over USD 1 billion. Founded in 2016 in Nigeria, Flutterwave has since grown into…

deejaynick20 July 4, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

Airtel Micro Merchant is powering thousands of Informal Businesses and Women

Our Reporter. Many Ugandan traders in the informal sector have been shut out of digital and financial inclusion drives because of their lack of required knowledge, devices and paperwork to register their businesses. In the end, boda boda riders, charcoal…

deejaynick20 July 3, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

Sup Money enables sending and receiving of money, payments, and access to credit through WhatsApp

Our Reporter. Renowned marketing and business expert, Steven Jeffes once said that “innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and develop a new where few have dared to go.” Indeed, all innovators always dare to either do…

deejaynick20 July 2, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

KaCyber has integrated FinTech into its transport ticketing systems

Our Reporter. If you are a frequent user of public transport in Africa, then you know the hustle and bustle involved in getting tickets and traveling. Things like long queues, manual processes and the no refund policy implemented by a…

deejaynick20 July 2, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

FinTechs brace for easier operations after introduction of New Software Development Kit

HiPipo, organisers of the 40Days40FinTechs initiative have welcomed the new Software Development Kits (SDKs) by the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA), saying this will go a long way in providing interoperable solutions. The SDKs, developed by GSMA’s Inclusive Tech…

deejaynick20 July 1, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

Kuzimba takes the entire building value chain online

Our Reporter. When Ephrance Eunice Namugenyi’s father started a paver and block-making business, he contacted his daughter to use her Information Technology skills to market his products. The two sat down and agreed to do something much bigger; create a…

deejaynick20 June 30, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

WomenSave is empowering rural women through goal-based Digital Savings

Our Reporter. Marie Mintalucci has spent a number of years supporting female-led groups across Sub-Saharan Africa to create self-sustaining ventures. However, during this time, she has mainly made two observations. One, women often borrow huge sums of money for unprofitable…

deejaynick20 June 29, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

EzeeMoney manages digital transactions of over UGX 30 Billion per Month

Our Reporter. Launched in 2013, EzeeMoney is a technology company dealing in both financial and non-financial services that target people at the bottom of the pyramid. On the financial side, EzeeMoney runs an agent-based model where they give out point-of-sale…

deejaynick20 June 28, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

Numida has disbursed over USD 16 million worth of credit to 25,000 Small and Medium Enterprises

Our Reporter. In Africa, the sources of business capital are usually personal funds, family, friends and loans. The first three are usually the ideal sources while the fourth is the most realistic. As such access to affordable and readily available…

deejaynick20 June 27, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

Pivot Payments is saving Migrant Workers from Fraudsters and Funds Misappropriation

Our Reporter. One of the biggest challenges faced by Ugandan migrant workers working in the Diaspora is money remittance. The cost of sending money is very high, ranging between five and ten dollars for transferring little amounts. On top of…

deejaynick20 June 26, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

Tawaza Diva is helping over 1,000 women and youth access digital loans

Our Reporter. Many Ugandans are full of business ideas but their biggest bottleneck is the lack of capital and inability to access credit. For a financial institution to give your business a loan, they will ask for a trading license,…

deejaynick20 June 25, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

Zofi Cash is using FinTech to help Employees Access Salary Advances within minutes

Our Reporter. Almost everyone has ever received a phone call or text with the person on the other side saying that s/he has an emergency and urgently needs financial assistance. Such communication takes a lot of guts, and somewhat courage…

deejaynick20 June 24, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

Merchandise Uganda is offering an online market with free stalls

Our Reporter. Anyone doing business in Uganda will tell you that paying rent is one of their biggest nightmares. Whether you have made profits or not; whether you have spent the month sick or away attending to a patient, or…

deejaynick20 June 23, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

PayLater; Uganda’s Online Shop That Allows Installments

Our Reporter. Many young corporates harbor dreams that would satisfy their heart’s desires. They would like to have nice cars, trendy phones, beautiful TV sets, durable furniture, name it! But their meager salaries are only enough for the daily essential…

deejaynick20 June 22, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

Her Duuka is helping over 500 women businesses survive Covid-19 hangover

Our Reporter. The past two years of the Covid-19 pandemic literally placed everyone in their right place – for both good and bad reasons. On the bad side; businesses closed, people lost jobs, families were broken, education stagnated and the…

deejaynick20 June 21, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

JUMO World is extending digital loans to more than 2.5 million Ugandans

Our Reporter. With the worsening economic situation in the country, on top of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, most Ugandans have resorted to seeking short-term loans from friends and family to make ends meet. But this is an unsustainable…

deejaynick20 June 20, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

Belle Beauty is using FinTech to help Ugandan beauticians

Our Reporter. When Uganda was put into a total lockdown in March 2020 due to the outbreak of Covid-19, my stylist’s hair salon came to a grand halt. She was forced to close business six months later because she could…

deejaynick20 June 19, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

Silicon Pay using FinTech to ease payments

By Our writer Away from its negative consequences, the COVID-19 pandemic was an eye-opener to individuals and businesses. It brought the role and overall importance of digital financial services (DFS) at the forefront. Further, the pandemic opened opportunities for…

deejaynick20 June 15, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

Card Pesa is keeping start-ups and individuals afloat with instant collateral-free loans

Our Reporter. Regardless of how persuasive loan advertisements are, getting credit in Uganda is one complicated hustle; more so for those in the informal sector – who happen to be the huge majority. When one visits a formal financial institution,…

deejaynick20 June 14, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

Kawu is using FinTech to make school life a joy to live

Our Reporter. The word Kawu must be familiar to whoever attended boarding schools in Uganda. Kawu is that period in a boarding school when a student’s pocket money and grab – read packed eats and drinks – are over and…

deejaynick20 June 13, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

AgriShare is using FinTech to improve farmers’ livelihood as Season Three of 40 Days 40 FinTechs kicks off

Our Reporter. No serious storyteller can narrate Uganda’s post-independence story without giving prominence to the famous Luweero triangle. It is that pivotal but that is a story for another day. For decades, farmers in Uganda have earned very little, sometimes…

deejaynick20 June 7, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

Two Million Businesses to benefit from Interoperable merchant payment switch

Private Sector Foundation Uganda’s new Chief Programs and Projects Officer, Damali Ssali in April presented about the vast business and investment opportunities that Uganda’s private sector offers through its umbrella arm, PSFU at the PI-18 Mojaloop community meeting organised by…

deejaynick20 May 30, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

#40Days40FinTechs #LevelOneProject Season Three Is Here!

We are proud to say that the second HiPipo 40 Days 40 FinTechs that ran in the months of July and August, 2021 set the bar very high. Even though it started soon after the partial lifting of the 2021…

deejaynick20 March 3, 2022 Conferences, Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

HiPipo & IDEATION CORNER ANNOUNCE WOMEN’S DAY CELEBRATION, & CONCLUSION OF INAUGURAL WOMEN IN FINTECH INCUBATOR

As part of our continuous efforts to not only improve the quality and variety of digital financial services, with a special emphasis on those that cater for the unbanked and underserved, but also to ensure that the delivery of these…

dawiltord January 31, 2022 Awards, Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

Here it is…the HiPipo 40 Days 40 FinTechs 2021 Report!

Follow this link to download the report. Dear friends & colleagues, I am proud to present to you the HiPipo 40 Days 40 FinTechs 2021 Report. Titled ‘Championing digital innovation & interoperable Instant & Inclusive Payment Systems (IIPS) in Africa’,…

deejaynick20 January 21, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

Of mood boards, apertures and universal values: #WomenInFinTech #LevelOneProject Incubator

Arthur expounded on what he referred to the ‘values desirable as social beings’. He explained these as the values that are common and constant to every human being, regardless of their background or status. These include integrity, respect, loyalty and…

deejaynick20 January 20, 2022 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, News

Camera settings, standing out, & time for KYC: #WomenInFinTech #LevelOneProject Incubator

Emmanuel Kintu rounded off his talk on digital camera settings, touching on the aspects of exposure, shutter speed, aperture diameter and ISO (International Standards Organisation). His presentation, as usual, was furnished with a variety of images to illustrate what he…

deejaynick20 January 19, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

The value proposition, types of mass communication, and we bring in the ‘light’: #WomenInFinTech #LevelOneProject Incubator

The aspect of the Social Venture Business Model George discussed today was the value proposition. He described how it is 2-way: on one hand there’s the promise by the service provider to the client that what the former puts forth…

deejaynick20 January 18, 2022 Digital Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, News

#WomenInFinTech #LevelOneProject Incubator – The social good, major league communication, and stacking up those values:

Kasakya George, who you can now call the ‘Social Venture Business Model Canvas Guy’, further defined the model, this time introducing and defining what a social good is, and how the budding entrepreneurs have to take time to look at…

deejaynick20 December 11, 2021 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

#DIAA2021: Standard Chartered Bank Wins Digital Brand of the Year

Standard Chartered Bank was yesterday announced the 2021 Digital Brand of the year. To win this Award, Standard Chartered Bank beat competition from Stanbic Bank and Centenary Bank that came second and third respectively. As such, Standard Chartered Bank retained…

deejaynick20 October 28, 2021 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

#DIAA2021: Journey to 2021 Digital and Financial Inclusion Summit kicks off with a Call for Entries

For Immediate Release. Wheels to the 2021 Digital and Financial Inclusion Summit that will also feature the 8th edition of Digital Impact Awards Africa have been set in motion with the opening of all channels for submissions of entries.…

deejaynick20 October 18, 2021 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

#LevelOneProject: Kuzimba Services wins 2021 #WomenInFinTech Hackathon

Our Reporter. The week-long Women in Fintech Hackathon came to an end last Friday with Kuzimba Services, providers of online construction and engineering solutions being declared winners after shrugging off tough competition for the top prize. Organised by HiPipo in…

deejaynick20 October 14, 2021 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

#LevelOneProject: Damali Ssali urges #WomenInFinTech participants to use the Internet to improve their Products

Kampala, Wednesday October 13, 2021: Participants at the on-going Women in FinTech Hackathon have been challenged to make good use of the Internet as it has several resources needed for product success. This message was delivered by Damali Ssali, a…

deejaynick20 October 13, 2021 Digital Inclusion, E-Commerce, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Devices, News

#LevelOneProject: Primera Muthoni mentors #WomenInFinTech participants on Product Management

Day four of the ongoing Women in FinTech Hackathon was a huge success as participants learnt about Product Management, Prototyping, and the Digital Financial Services Providers (DFSPs) ecosystem. The day’s mentor, Primera Muthoni; an ICT Product Development Expert and a…

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