His mom owns and manages a grocery shop in Kampala, but the Ugandan Amos Walugembe had his heart set on a tech career. Then, in 2017 Tunga crossed his path.
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FairTrade software: how our story took off in the Dutch media
Het Parool was the first Dutch media outlet to write about Tunga this year in a piece about FairTrade Software. It was soon picked up by others.
Tunga has started a women-only software development course in Uganda
Globally 17% of software engineers are women. In Africa this percentage is 2%. Tunga starts “women in tech” coding classes to increase this.
Reinier van Scherpenzeel new operations director at Tunga
Since january 2019 this year Reinier van Scherpenzeel (32) is based in Kampala as our new Operations Director.
Outsourcing to Africa: the last untapped tech talent pool
Interview with Ernesto Spruyt and David Semakula of Tunga. They talk about pioneering the development of outsourcing to Africa.
Video: Advanced female coding classes started by Tunga
We are proud to announce that together with Kampabits we are providing an advanced coding course to 15 girls. Our goal is to promote diversity within Tunga and in the tech ecosystem.
Video: Why Tunga is important according to CTO David Semakula
David, CTO at Tunga, explains that the local market in Uganda doesn’t offer modern technology and doesn’t apply to the skills of African developers.
African IT talent: startup Tunga founded to give them a podium
Tunga founder Ernesto Spruyt was interviewed by BNR on how and why his startup aims to give a podium to African tech talent.
Video: Tunga meets an investor and CTO David about his role
In the latest episode of our video series (4m) Ernesto visits Kampala to meet an investor. And David explains what it is like to be CTO of Tunga.
