The Tunga Blog

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The African developer market is evolving quickly. In the latest episode of the Tunga Dev Hour, industry veteran Peter Kakoma shares his views and gives advice to those eager to enter the global scene.

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Tunga’s first hackathon last month gave young African developers an opportunity to test and show their skills. In this blog, we put the spotlight on the three winning teams and their products. Read more about these ambitious junior devs and compete in one of the next editions!

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On 16 July 2021, Tunga reached a new milestone in its short history. Audiences worldwide could tune in for the presentations and award ceremony of the first Tunga hackathon.

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Building your career in Africa as a software developer for European or North American clients has some great benefits. But how do you get there? Check out this episode of Tunga Dev Hour.

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In this Tunga Dev Hour we meet David Boxshall of POD Group. David explains why they are interested to hire IoT developers from Africa.

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This report gives a comprehensive overview of what IT staff augmentation is, how it is best organized and what countries are attractive for IT augmentation services.

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We’ve taken a dive into the numbers and have made an educated guess of what are the most in demand software skills for the upcoming year.

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This research article describes in detail which countries are most suitable for sourcing African software developers and why.

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Remote teams, scrum and IT staffing: Tunga COO Reinier shares some – perhaps unexpected – insights.

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“The Tunga Hub is a place where we can house, inspire and help flourish our growing Tunga community.”

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To give aspiring developers an idea of what software languages to focus on in order to start a career, Tunga created the TOP 20 of most in demand software skills.

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Global sourcing of tech talent from African countries has taken a flight. IT-staffing company Tunga now published a research report about sourcing software developers from Africa.

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Determined to make a meaningful contribution to Africa and to create more opportunities for African developers, Tunga has now launched an e-learning platform.

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Tunga has received a Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) loan to build capacity. The investment enables Tunga to solidify its African operations, allowing the launch of growth plans in Europe.

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Tunga in Nigeria. Booming Lagos tech scene seeks alliance with global companies

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Tunga published a report about sourcing African talent. The countries that are most suitable for finding software developers are discussed.

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This report gives a comprehensive overview of what IT staff augmentation is, how it is best organized and what countries are attractive for IT augmentation services.

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This research article describes in detail which countries are most suitable for sourcing African software developers and why.

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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.

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Globally 17% of software engineers are women. In Africa this percentage is 2%. Tunga starts “women in tech” coding classes to increase this.

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Since january 2019 this year Reinier van Scherpenzeel (32) is based in Kampala as our new Operations Director.

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Interview with Ernesto Spruyt and David Semakula of Tunga. They talk about pioneering the development of outsourcing to Africa.

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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.

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Tunga founder Ernesto Spruyt was interviewed by BNR on how and why his startup aims to give a podium to African tech talent.

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BNR Radio invited Tunga CEO Ernesto Spruyt to discuss what role European companies can play in addressing youth unemployment in Africa.

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This report gives a comprehensive overview of what IT staff augmentation is, how it is best organized and what countries are attractive for IT augmentation services.

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This research article describes in detail which countries are most suitable for sourcing African software developers and why.

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Building your career in Africa as a software developer for European or North American clients has some great benefits. But how do you get there? Check out this episode of Tunga Dev Hour.

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In this Tunga Dev Hour we meet David Boxshall of POD Group. David explains why they are interested to hire IoT developers from Africa.

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In this video, Ernesto & Bart travel to Lagos, Nigeria to spend quality time with the existing Tunga software developers community there, and to host a meetup for aspiring developers.

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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.

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In this video Ernesto explains how in the Tunga culture people can be independent, in their strength and have room for fun.

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In this vlog, Bart talks about the great dynamics that arise when bringing developers, with different backgrounds, together.

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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.

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Tunga has started a series of short vlogs to illustrate our adventures in Europe and Africa. In this edition: our recap of the East Africa Business Dialogue hosted by the Dutch government.

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Struggling to find good software developers in their home market, leading Dutch car search engine Gaspedaal turned to African developers to build their new iOS and Android apps.