warid telecom still lacking

warid telecom started its service a few months back and managed to get a big number of ugandans buying their lines but very few of them still use them on day to day basis.

i was really impressed by their new offer of paying for only the first 2 minutes and i decided to get my line back online and i also thought of buying warid lines for all the people i would like to keep in touch with since the offer is only available from warid to warid calls.

With all those offers i believe warid has a really nice marketing team and strategy but they need to think about people like me who can not just let go of their old lines.

i think they would achieve that by lets say providing dual sim phones with the warid lines set to default or by helping us send free SMSs to all the contacts in our phones informing them of our transition.

ugandan website scene

i was relaxing and i thought, "why dont i share the few ugandan websites i've found online" and here they are.





icare uganda
icare is a ugandan website where u can purchase stuff ranging from airtime to mobile phones and so much more.

hipipo
hipipo is a social networking site for ugandans. it has got a nice number of members but for me personally i dont enjoy their site because of its appearance(design). you guys should think abt changing it.

campuser
campuser was intially meant to be social networking site but nowadays it looks to me like they r losing track of their vision since to to them social networking is now becoming a by the way.

exit kampala
exit kampala is an entertainment site providing entertainment news and so much more.

those are the few sites i recall but if you know of any others post them
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ugandan universities should change their ict curriculum

i was really disappointed by the university students doing IT and computer science. i recently got a chance to step in makerere and i saw a number of students seated with some killer laptops and i wondered wat they were using them for coz am always trying to find new killer websites by ugandans but i always find nothing.

But i think that the biggest problem is that the universities create job seekers instead of job creators coz i find it really funny how an ICT student can be ready to take on a job where they are getting paid less than ugshs200.000 yet they can startup a simple website and earn the same amout with less stress.

recently i've been trying to find information about young internet millionaires and i was really surprised how young people with less qualifications could start really successful internet companies e.g. the facebook founder and some young guy who founded bizchair.com. After that i wondered wat was really wrong with ict in uganda.

My advice is that the ugandan ict ministry should start financing young innovative and creative guys coz many of them may be having nice ideas but lacking finances to implement them. e.g. i myself am currently tryin to raise money to put up one of my sites.

Note: am not a very good writer. just learning

welcome to my ict blog

i was never a big fun of blogging because i hated writing. nway i have started this blog because i have noticed that computers in uganda are under utilised and the ict ministry has not done enough to fully exploit the ict potential.

let me take ma self for instance, since my senior four i've always had a number of internet web ideas (e.g. ugpals the friends website i created after learning php and mysql) but i wouldnt even afford purchasing a domain name.

its also funny how the government has promoted ict awareness in the community but many people think ict is about using microsoft office, burning cds with nero and other petty stuff.

this is ma first posting hope it was fair