Seedstars World Global Startup Competition coming soon to search for the best startup in Uganda
Seedstars World (SSW) is gearing up to continue its global startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes in 2014 and is arriving in Kampala on 27th June, 2014.
May 27, 2014— Outbox was selected to receive a WeTech Seed Fund Grant to support its Women Passion program project in Uganda. The Women Passion program is an experiential based-learning initiative to equip up-to 100 girls and women with programming and entrepreneurship skills.
Nairobi Kenya, May 6,2014 - PIVOT East, an innovative startups competition geared towards nurturing the growing ICT talent in East Africa, has unveiled semifinalist for this year’s competition. The competition opened a call for applications in February 2014 with startups from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Ethiopia applying through an online portal (startups.pivoteast.com)
On 30th April, 2014, The Institute of Computer Science, Mbarara University School of Technology held their first Annual ICS Awards, which saw Inovations from Students in ICS recognised and rewarded in different categories including two ideas from first and second year students.
The Award was aimed at stimulating, harnessing and honoring student ideas to sustainable ICT entrepreneurship.
The folowing were the objectives of the ICS Award:
·To develop a culture of innovation in the Institute of Computer Science and the whole university
On Friday 2nd May, 2014, Outbox hosted Don Onwunumah a software systems architect currently working at PigStyCoders for a one days Raspberry Pi workshop which brought together over 30 participants including 6 ladies in the space.
Submitted by richardzulu on 16 April 2014 - 6:30pm
Following the successful launch of the Intel Student Partner Program in Kenya, Intel is now opening up an opportunity for university students in Uganda and Tanzania to apply to be a part of this program. Apply by 6th May 2014 to be a part of this exciting experience!
Submitted by richardzulu on 31 March 2014 - 9:12pm
The 2014 edition of PIVOT East promises to be a hotly contested competition from start to finish as 25 exceptional mobile startups are set to fight it out to win market recognition and investor interest for the fourth year running within a fast paced and high output activity schedule.
