Kampala, Uganda – Ensibuuko is excited to announce its partnership with Mercy Corps Uganda’s Agri-Fin Mobile program to improve efficiency in the operation of Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) and to provide rural smallholder farmers with the full benefits mobile financial services.
In this guest post, Michael Hailu, Director of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) outlines how ICTs can entice young people into agricultural professions and modernize the sector. When I first met Gerald Otim and Opio David at CTA’s first agricultural hackathon in 2013, they had their heads locked together, preparing the
(Post written by Outbox Hub in Uganda) Ensibuuko is a web and mobile application that enables savings and credit cooperative societies (SACCOs) of smallholder rural farmers mobilise savings, receive and disburse loans easily and quickly using SMS and Mobile money. Ensibuuko is working to improve financial inclusion for rural smallholder farmers in Uganda by using
In November 2013, Gerald Otim of Ensibuuko and Peris Bosire of FarmDrive were two of the 20 participants competing in the first ever regional agri-hackathon. Fast forward nine months to July 2014, and these two are back at CTA’s 2014 international conference, Fin4Ag, but this time they are as part of Plug & Play Day and as speakers in the
The regional winners of the hackathon organised in the framework of the 2013 ICT4Ag Conference were announced at the Awards and Closing Ceremony of the event, on 7th November in Kigali, Rwanda. This concludes the first phase of the Agrihack Championship. Meet the winners in this article. 1st Prize: Ensibuuko, from Uganda (won 5,000 Euros
CTA organised the first edition of the Agrihack Championship in the framework of the ICT4Ag 2013 Conference, in collaboration with partners including MINAGRI and MYICT (Rwanda), mLab East, kLab and the support of AGRA and Microsoft Africa. The three regional winners were Ensibuuko, AgriVAS and Agrinfo. The Agrihack Championship is a several weeks’ regional coding
Team name Ensibuuko Firstname, family name and contact details of team members Opio Obwangamoi, Gerald Otim, Kalinzi Kalinzi, Winnie Muhoozi, Angella Nkalubo, Country Uganda Supporting hub Outbox hub Name of the product developed Ensibuko App Description of the product developed for Agrihack Ensibuuko is a web and mobile application that
The ICT for Agriculture (ICT4Ag) international conference and its parallel hackathon (dubbed “Agri-hack championship”) will take place from 4th – 8th November 2013 in Kigali Rwanda. The conference seeks to examine how ICTs are truly empowering producers and consumers along the entire value chain. Earlier this year, the Technical Center for Agricutural and Rural Cooperation
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