by The Fikiria Desk | Nov 8, 2019 | Consumers
Rwanda has spent a decade earning a reputation as one of the continent’s most deliberate digital reformers, yet the ordinary consumer in Kigali still pays a premium for a narrow menu of devices, data bundles and cloud services, most of them priced and controlled...
by The Fikiria Desk | Nov 8, 2019 | Consumers
Investors have learned to read African technology announcements with a discount already applied, because the gap between a launch event and a paying customer has swallowed more capital than anyone likes to admit. So the advancing of Kigali Innovation City — a...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 25, 2019 | Consumers
Every day Ugandans surrender personal information they never priced. A SIM card demands a national ID and a photograph. A mobile-money wallet logs each transfer. A digital lender reads a phone’s contact list before advancing a few thousand shillings. Until now,...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 25, 2019 | Consumers
A law passed in Kampala rarely stops at the border, and this one is built to travel awkwardly. Uganda has enacted the Data Protection and Privacy Act, setting rules for how personal data is collected, processed, stored and transferred. The domestic story is...