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"The same year, we got into Co-Creation Hub, we had an academy where we were taught about startups, entrepreneurship, and many others, it was really a very good experience for us then, having founded Jobs in Nigeria."

"We learned a lot of things about execution, building technologies and skills, and those things helped us a lot during our time at JIN. Still, I like to make an impact, and working at BudgIT is another one. BudgIT simplifies government data for ordinary citizens to understand, and technology plays a huge role in this because if you want to reach people and also want to simplify data, there are two sides to it. There are people who are on the internet and tech savvy, another are those who prefer the traditional way of doing things, am talking about those who prefer newspaper and stuff. It’s also possible we have people in these two segments."

"So at BudgIT, we have been doing a lot of publications to reach out to those set of people who prefer the traditional media or not too tech savvy and also, build websites and apps for the set of people that are tech savvy and online to help them simplify and understand government data."

"We have also built some civic tools like Find a Cop, PICC, Tracka and many others. We have also organized some major tech hackathons in Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra leone. These are tech areas I’m involved in with a team of three other tech wizards and many project managers."

"Long after my JIN days, I still felt that the service market was grossly underserved and that a local solution would be needed to solve the jobs market so, I started Findworka in May 2016. Findworka helps you find skilled people, artisans, and workers and today, we have over a thousand workers and businesses on our platform."

"I look forward to that same energy during my term."

"I thank Mrs. Francesca Kakooza and everyone who offered themselves for leadership for your zeal for a better TCNOGA."

"We remain one TCNOGA, and look forward to working with you."

"Yes, it depends on how you see it because any opportunity is an opportunity whether it’s full-time or project based especially in this ecosystem where people are largely looking for developers and designers. I would say it’s a task and services marketplace where any project or task you want to do or want to have done can be done, you can just come into the platform and submit the project/task and you would have people who are interested in doing it for you, you guys connect that way and they start working on your project; you pay them and everybody is happy."

"I like to work with data and from the artisan perspective, I don’t want to assume that they are not online. We realize that they are also online because not everybody that graduated from a particular university is doing a white collar job, some people have gone out there to start their own businesses, some are auto mechanics, painters etc and they are learned, they know how to use the internet. I understand that a majority of them do not but then we have quite a good percentage of them that know how to use tech and for that reason, we can’t just cut out the problem, we just need to find a way to make them know how to use the platform. For example, When Facebook came, nobody taught anybody how to use the platform. We don’t want to make the assumption that the market is not there, we have confirmed the market is there, and it’s just about how we simplify the platform so that they can all understand how to use it. Since we have launched, we have had a pool of people submitting their data on this platform and also getting opportunities."

"The goal is to simplify the whole process. For the employer, finding skilled and trusted professionals is a bit difficult, and the skilled professionals want a job and those in jobs want to commercialize their spare time for additional income. Many of them are not yet aware of our platform, but we’ve already started building relationships with various communities and also doing some online marketing to help us reach mor"

"At this stage, we don’t charge the employers which is because we need them, a lot of them. They are the job providers and we need to have them come in and drop their projects or jobs for free. What we also do is to try to explain the benefits to them, make them understand that it is totally free except for the fact that you have to pay upfront the amount the service provider has billed you. The platform also exposes them to a lot of talent."

"How we provide securities for the employee is that we make sure that the employers pay 100% upfront into our escrow account; the service provider having known this, would get to work and then once job is complete and delivered, we can then release the money to the service provider. Our revenue model is 15% commission on every transaction through the platform."

"I went to DFCU Bank as Head of Marketing and Communications."

"I then took a break for a year. After the sabbatical and I joined Vision Group, a media conglomerate."

"I never need more than three years because after three years, I feel like, ‘Okay."

"I think I’ve done what I came to do here."

"I move on to the next challenge, because I love challenges."

"I don’t like to sit in a place where I feel like I’m being paid, but I’m not really doing much."

"I am not adding any more value."

"Sometimes that calls for crazy decision making, but I love challenges."

"I love to feel that when I wake up in the morning, and I go to work, I’m going to make a difference."

"I’m going to add value to the company."

"That’s why my previous work stints were all three years, until I got to Vision Group where I surprised myself by lasting eight years."

"I guess why I survived eight years, so to speak, is because I kept re-inventing my role such that by the time I left, my role had grown by leaps and bounds as I kept re-inventing it and adding responsibilities and finding new ways to keep myself challenged."

"My career path has really been one where when I look back, intentional, and yet not intentional by my standards."

"I honestly see the hand of God leading and guiding me and placing me in different institutions and I doing my bit and and always giving my best."

"I’ve always pushed myself no matter what task I’m given, to give my best and I think that remains one of my principles."

"That work ethic hasn’t changed and right now I’m trying to teach it to my team at Urge Uganda."

"That work ethic where nothing is impossible and you can do all things."

"I learned that work ethic while I worked at Scanad."

"My first gig at an advertising agency, two years fresh out of university."

"I was like, ‘Whoa what is this?’ Because we were working hard and burning the midnight oil."

"I guess this was the same at even my university because we would be up at midnight, you know, typing work and everything."

"People would hand in written work but Mass Communications’ students even before the age of computers."

"We were typing and that really taught us to stay up late, work hard, you know, burn the midnight oil."

"So, just those two first years of my career after university really taught me the work ethic that enabled me now to excel in these different places that I went to."

"I had hit the ceiling. Even when I chose not to renew my contract, it was really because I had done everything that I had been tasked to do."

"I had reached the areas where I felt the company should be going to, and I had kind of like stalled."

"I realised that the company could do with new energy that would then take them to the next level."

"I needed to find other ways to pour out, to use my knowledge."

"I also felt that it could best be expressed in starting a company of my own. So that’s really why I left."

"What I loved about Makerere was the sports."

"It facilitated my interactions with a number of people."

"I was the Hockey Captain for Mary Stuart Hall."

"I was swimming, playing basketball and squash."

"In the mornings, the guys would come round, pick us and we would jog around the university while singing mchaka mchaka songs."

"In the market place now, a lot of people will relate to you simply because you went to Makerere."

"My feel is that there are presently few graduates who are able to think critically and hold valuable conversations."

"We understand the need to employ young people, but their skill, knowledge, eye for detail, and commitment to excellence isn’t there."