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Tech career - Amos Walugembe working for Provolve

‘From grocery shop to tech career’

Posted on October 10, 2019 | by Tunga | Leave a Comment on ‘From grocery shop to tech career’

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.

Posted in Articles | Tagged developer stories, uganda
FairTrade Software - media reporting on our initiative

FairTrade software: how our story took off in the Dutch media

Posted on March 5, 2019 | by Tunga | Leave a Comment on 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.

Posted in News Features | Tagged ad, algemeen dagblad, computable, fair trade, fairtrade, impact sourcing, it jobs africa, parool, publicity
Women in tech coding class at Tunga

Tunga has started a women-only software development course in Uganda

Posted on February 20, 2019 | by Tunga | Leave a Comment on 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.

Posted in News Features | Tagged african coders, african developers, coding classes, female coders, kampabits, wearebits, women in tech
Reinier van Scherpenzeel new director at Tunga

Reinier van Scherpenzeel new operations director at Tunga

Posted on February 6, 2019 | by Tunga | Leave a Comment on 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.

Posted in News Features | Tagged announcement, kampala, operations director, reinier van scherpenzeel, uganda
Outsourcing to Africa - interview in Het Parool

Outsourcing to Africa: the last untapped tech talent pool

Posted on January 21, 2019 | by Tunga | Leave a Comment on 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.

Posted in News Features | Tagged african coders, african developers, fair trade, fairtrade, impact sourcing, parool, publicity

Video: Advanced female coding classes started by Tunga

Posted on January 3, 2019 | by Tunga | Leave a Comment on 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.

Posted in News Features | Tagged african coders, african developers, design hub kampala, female coders, kampabits, wearebits, women in tech

Video: Why Tunga is important according to CTO David Semakula

Posted on November 5, 2018 | by Tunga | Leave a Comment on 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.

Posted in Articles, Videos | Tagged african coders, african developers, african youths, david semakula, it jobs africa
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African IT talent: startup Tunga founded to give them a podium

Posted on October 16, 2018 | by Tunga | Leave a Comment on 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.

Posted in News Features | Tagged africa, african coders, african developers, african tech, developer shortage, it worker shortage

Video: Tunga meets an investor and CTO David about his role

Posted on July 6, 2018 | by Tunga | Leave a Comment on 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.

Posted in Videos | Tagged david semakula, design hub kampala, dob equity, dob foundation, impact investment, kampala

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