Ever wondered what happens to your online accounts when you die? Over the last few years, Facebook’s been the bearer of the bad news of the death of a few friends of mine. It is always a moment of shock when the time between the news friend’s passing on and the last status update is just a few hours.
For accounts like mine with a lot of content shared per day, I always ask myself: what will happen when I go? Read more…
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Electronic conversations: How many gadgets are here?
Yesterday I joined my good friends and Twitter buddies, Boaz Shani, Javie Ssozi, Maureen Agena, Ruth Aine, Evelyn Namara, Patricia Twino, Daniel Stern, Darlyne Komukama and Collins Mugume on one of those long overdue road trips to Masindi District in Western Uganda. The stated objective was to attend the Villages In Action, 2012 conference, but for each of the members of Friday’s Delegation from Kampala, I got the sense that there is some other motivation to traveling this far to one of the remotest villages in country – but I’ll get back to that later.
Villages in Action is an initiative of TMS Ruge‘s Project Diaspora, birthed when his team decided to “change perceptions about the poor” by building a platform on which their voices can be heard. Accoring to their website, it was set up in sharp contrast to conventional gatherings to review the progress of the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals), in which high profile attendees, including heads of states, celebrities and other bureaucrats wine and dine, without the representation of the poor themselves.
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After 3 months, very few feel needed by their country
The TV commercial features a few pieces of what looks like pineapple being “dropped” on a not-so-ordinary plate, with a number of children’s hands waiting. Appearing to bring out the element of lack (of enough food), one of the hands is depicted to have been about to “pick nothing” from the plate.
But the estimated cost of the plate, and the mat on which it is placed have no relationship with those expected in areas worst hit by hunger – or lack of enough food. Read more…
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As I type this, most people have already broken off for the end-of-year holidays. Having kept our ears to the ground all year, here is a list of the top 10 people we feel stood out in Uganda’s ICT “department”.
1. Michael Niyitegeka
Michael Niyitegeka
Here is the short version of Michael’s contribution to the ICT Sector in Uganda: inspired, motivated, involved. (That is to borrow Stanbic bank’s slogan!)
I don’t remember how many presentations and keynote addresses he has delivered at product/service-launches, seminars and conferences. He has actively worked with teams organizing various start-up events including Garage48 and Random Hacks of Kindness; and through his office as the Head of Corporate Relations at Makerere University, helped bring Microsoft’s Innovation Centre to the University.
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My childhood memories, unlike most of you, are not worth reminiscing about. My father was not big on spending money; he didn’t have to buy for us things simply because the rest of the parents around our neighborhood were.
On Christmas day, we woke up early and wore our usual clothes and shoes and went to church to admire other kids and secretly hate our parents. And for some reason, it almost always rained that morning. My being asthmatic helped matters none.
When I was about sixteen, I came to the city to live with my relatives. I developed a love hate relationship then. I got the clothes, the shoes, the wrapped presents and the big Christmas tree. You would think dream come true, huh? My aunt was nicknamed Sadam, after Sadam Hussein. The rest you can figure out!
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Ever wondered what happens to your online accounts when you die? Over the last few years, Facebook’s been the bearer of the bad news of the death of a few friends of mine. It is always a moment of shock when the time between the news friend’s passing on and the last status update is just a few hours.
