A few days back. i came a cross this link i one of my feeds from New
Vision Online with a story about that one Ugandan that has developed an
app to help the youth and other pro-president supporters communicate
with the president. As a matter of fact i ordered for a glass of water
and cake, this sounds like the best dish of a morning you can have at
your favorite hotel but i did exactly that. I was all set to dear the
article where i immediately saw another pop of the reminder of a similar
article from The Daily Monitor Uganda, those who read Amakuru Online
(www.amakuruonline.com)know how this pop up thing works. setting only
feeds of the articles you will read in a given paper.
I read the article and honestly sometimes i love how Ugandans love to
use the word innovation to mean creating anything that’s money
fetching.
sometimes i am driven off by this “innovation” and the fact that it
has won attention of the two giant media houses in Uganda.Cutting the
story short as always said: The group made up of 6 youth clearly
possessing technical abilities(since they developed the app) reportedly
spent 5 million Uganda shillings approx $2000 if u get the current
exchange of a dollar being at 2800Ugx. The group claims to have invested
their hard EARNED CASH – that i wish they had invested elsewhere.
Sharing with a few friends within my reach, i got different questions
and ideologies showing how ugandan youth have lost the who idea of
innovation.
Ugandan Youth are mostly driven by what to earn immediately after the
innovation is up or even before the innovation is in place.
in my opinion, Ugandan youth should focus at impact first of any
innovation to our community and then later the moneys later. This is a
better app and will add something to Ugandan youth especially in the
youth developmental programs that are running in the country.
“Lets innovate to change lives first and money will come later” Opodo Daniel
Source: amakuruonline.com
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