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Michael Ologe was
attached to the technology department of Ahuriire Uganda Limited located along Isingiro
road in Mbarara City. During the training, Ologe, a graduate of Computer
Science from Uganda Christian University, and Hyuha Gerald, 28, a Software
Engineer who graduated from Makerere University last year, were tasked to use
the skills acquired to create, maintain and manage digital products of the
company. They combined efforts and successfully developed two products for the
company, Agritungo farmers App and Rembo Finance, an online financial
management platform.
“We joined at a time when the company was
re-branding the system and we built it from scratch. We were able to develop a new
version of the system and a mobile application system dubbed, agritungo. It
offers a variety of services to farmers,” Ologe says.
Ologe says Agritungo
App helps farmers to manage their farms using mobile phones anywhere, any time.
The key features of the APP include; farmer profiling, farm management and milk
database among others. Additionally, the two trainees developed Rembo, an
online financial management platform which targets Savings and Credit
Cooperative Organistions (SACCOs), Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and Village
Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs).
Its key features
include; member enrollment, savings and credit management, loan management,
online and mobile banking and automatic SMS alerts. The graduates confess that
the training was an eye-opener to them and that with the acquired practical skills,
life will never remain the same.
Hyuha who also
develops websites as a side business, says before the training, he was half
baked but has since transformed into an innovator.
“I did not know most of the things but now, I
have developed skills in programming, Software development, setting up networks
using bootstrap,” he says with a smile of hope. His trainers at Ahuriire were
able to guide him on application of the knowledge acquired at school.
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