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Sylvia Mulinge, CEO of MTN Uganda, highlighted the corporate’s dedication to innovation, sustainability, and excellence in ICT, aligning with MTN’s Ambition 2025.
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Ibrahim Senyonga, GM of MTN’s Enterprise Business Unit, mentioned how partnerships with corporations like Microsoft, Infobip, Galooli, Cisco, Chenosis, Bayobab and extra, allow MTN to supply complete enterprise options.
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MTN Uganda’s has been a key participant in Uganda’s digital transformation journey by their countrywide connectivity, Mobile Money revolution, and help to varied Public sector initiatives.
MTN Uganda efficiently held the inaugural MTN ICT Expo 2024, a landmark occasion set to revolutionize Uganda’s digital panorama.
The Expo, held on the first and 2nd of August on the prestigious Mestil Hotel, introduced collectively trade leaders, innovators, and key stakeholders to discover the transformative energy of digital know-how beneath the theme ‘Accelerating Business Transformation with Digital Technology.
Building on the resounding success of the inaugural MTN ICT Solutions Conference in 2023, this yr’s Expo, endorsed by the Ministry of ICT, aimed to additional set up MTN Uganda as a pioneer in know-how options. The occasion targeted on 4 pivotal service areas: Cloud Solutions, Unified Communications, Internet of Things, and Digital Services.
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Cloud Solutions: Enabling companies to retailer, handle, and course of knowledge by cloud-based platforms, enhancing scalability and lowering IT prices. Examples embrace MTN’s cloud storage companies and knowledge backup options.
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Unified Communications: Integrating varied communication instruments resembling voice, video, messaging, and conferencing right into a single cohesive system, enhancing collaboration and productiveness. MTN’s options embrace VoIP companies and digital assembly platforms.
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Internet of Things (IoT): Connecting gadgets and techniques to the web to gather and alternate knowledge, enabling smarter operations and automation. Examples embrace MTN’s good agriculture options and linked dwelling gadgets.
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Digital Services: Offering a spread of digital instruments and platforms that improve enterprise operations and buyer experiences. These embrace MTN’s cellular cash companies, e-commerce platforms, and digital advertising options.
The Guest of honor, Hon. Aminah Zawedde, Permanent Secretary of the Uganda Ministry of ICT and National Guidance. recommended MTN Uganda for organizing the MTN ICT Expo and thanked all collaborating companions. “The authorities acknowledges the personal sector’s essential function within the Digital Transformation Roadmap for Uganda, which aligns with our 2040 imaginative and prescient. We recognize MTN’s management in driving digital transformation and supporting youth skilling,” mentioned Hon. Zawedde
In her remarks, Sylvia Mulinge, CEO of MTN Uganda, emphasised the corporate’s unwavering dedication to innovation, sustainability, and excellence in ICT. “MTN Uganda’s dedication to investing in countrywide community protection, sustainable and inexperienced knowledge facilities throughout the nation, and digital expertise growth for the younger workforce aligns with our Ambition 2025 to guide digital options for Uganda and Africa at massive,” mentioned Mulinge. “We are proud to drive Uganda’s digital transformation and help each the personal and public sectors with our cutting-edge applied sciences.”
Ibrahim Senyonga, General Manager of MTN’s Enterprise Business Unit (EBU), highlighted the important function of digital applied sciences in driving effectivity, innovation, and progress in enterprises. “Our partnerships with main corporations resembling Bayobab, Chenosis, , Infobip, , Galooli, Chrif Group, Cisco and Microsoft have enabled us to supply a complete vary of enterprise options that cater to the distinctive wants of companies,” mentioned Senyonga. “The MTN ICT Expo is a testomony to our dedication to enabling enterprises to thrive within the digital age.”
MTN Uganda has been an important driver of digital transformation within the nation, with substantial investments in infrastructure, innovation, and partnerships. The firm has drastically expanded cellular and fiber community protection, enhancing web accessibility throughout Uganda. MTN’s Mobile Money service has revolutionized monetary inclusion, providing hundreds of thousands of Ugandans entry to digital funds and monetary companies. Additionally, MTN has made important strides in deploying 4G and 5G applied sciences, fostering a dynamic digital ecosystem by collaborations with varied sectors, and selling digital literacy to empower people and companies.
MTN Uganda has additionally supported a number of important nationwide digital transformation initiatives, together with the First National Digital Census and Digital Agent Payments, facilitating environment friendly knowledge assortment and monetary transactions, and UCC RUCUSAF Projects, connecting 4,200 homesteads to digital platforms.
The MTN ICT Expo 2024 showcased the newest improvements and underscored the profound affect of know-how on companies, the general public sector, and the broader neighborhood.
