TechCrunch
MAY 11, 2021
On April 16, Uganda-based two-wheel ride-hailing platform SafeBoda announced that it had completed 1 million rides in Ibadan, a southwestern city in Nigeria. The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria.
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 31, 2025
In Uganda’s Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee , a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is creeping beyond the city. That frustrates Innocent Piloya, an agroecology entrepreneur who grows coffee in rural Uganda with her company Ribbo Coffee. Walling reported from Chicago.
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Blue Avocado
JANUARY 14, 2025
Instead, we utilize the services of volunteers both local and international, as well as online and on-site. Our greatest challenge is to recruit serious volunteers especially from the international community that may be willing to come to Uganda to share with us their skills, knowledge, experience, expertise, ideas, and resources.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 2, 2013
Gorilla Doctors provides life-saving medical care to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ewaso Lions is a focused conservation research project in Samburu, Kenya that is working to conserve Kenya’s lions while improving livelihoods of local people.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 27, 2022
NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. to East African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), thus ushering the Tanzanian fintech into the remittance business. and the E.U., and the U.S.
Amy Sample Ward
JUNE 17, 2010
What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? From @amoration: I find we’re always both global & local, so many of us travel frequently that virtual organizing tools are essential even for “local&# endeavors. Social media used to engage local supporters to act globally.
TechCrunch
APRIL 26, 2023
These are relevant localized data that have long been left out of the bigger pool of KYC and fraud prevention. Fraud data, mobile money data, government data queried against national ID systems, AML, PEP screening checks, sanction screening, both global and local KYB business verification data. We have product depth in Nigeria already.
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