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Uganda Developers invited to apply for the Global Hackathon Seoul

Global Hackathon Seoul is a unique opportunity to drive social and technological change, on a monumental scale, by instilling the hacker mindset in South Korea. This is the Hackathon Olympics.

Village Capital FinTech for Agriculture: East Africa 2015 cohort announced

12 startups selected to participate in the third Village Capital FinTech for Agriculture: East Africa accelerator programme, launched. Two ventures to secure US$50,000 in funding.
 
NAIROBI ​­ Village Capital launched its FinTech for Agriculture: East Africa 2015 accelerator programme at a launch event in Nairobi, revealing the cohort of 12 startups selected to participate in the programme.
 

PIVOT EAST 2015 - Announcing Call for Applications

Nairobi, Kenya,March 31, 2015​: PIVOT East, one of the most prestigious mobile startup competitions and conferences is now open for entries through it’s PIVOT East Startups Community Network. The competition officially opens its application portal for entries on March 30th 2015 and will continue to accept applications until midnight EAT on April 31st 2015.

The Intel Ideation Camp at Mbarara University

Reference - Tech Women Uganda Blog

Outbox takes the Intel Ideation Camp to West Uganda - 27th and 28th March, 2015

It was an exciting way to start the weekend, with guidance through Innovation and Entrepreneurship with trainers from Outbox taking students (youths) at ICS Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), through a step by step process of coming up with technology ideas and turning them into business.

Intelworld are Innotribe semi finalists

Cross posted from Intelworld

Intelworld one of the startups affiliated to Outbox have emerged innotribe semi finalists.

Women Passion Program (WOPA) - On the farm with unbanked farmers

Over the weekend of Saturday 7th March, 2015, the ladies in our Women Passion program (WOPA) spent a whole day visiting low-income and unbanked farmers in the central region of Uganda. The objective was to carry out interviews and develop an understanding of the challenges they face.

Find pictures here

Open Data Day (Data expedition session) - Barabara team focusing on Infrastructure

On Feb 21st 2015, a team of youthful innovators came together during the open data day event at outbox to devise means on how to improve usage of available data resource on the various platforms and responsible offices. Four various fields/themes were suggested for a clear path. These themes included;

Open Data Day 2015 - What transpired

On Feb 21st 2015 Kampala joined many other cities around the world to celebrate Open data day. A team of up to 79 youthful innovators came together for the Open Data Day 2015 workshop which was held at Outbox to devise means on how to improve usage of available data resource on the various platforms and responsible offices.

View the event pictures on facebook.

The workshop had speakers from the Government, World Bank, CIPESA (askyourgov) and Code4Africa.

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