Co-Founder/CEO @aistudiouganda | Member @OpenAI Forum | Innovator and astute thinker in AI. Uganda Community Lead https://teapawt.org/t.co/sWS2SLGBLo
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Check out my latest article: How AI Agents Will Transform Work and Life in East Africa linkedin.com/pulse/how-ai-ag… via @LinkedIn @TheMutambuze
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The Future of Travel, Tech and Tourism.
Join us for an exciting Africa’s Talking Meet-Up with Lokwii Tom Choudry, Founder & CEO of TLC Safaris, as we explore how tech is transforming Uganda’s tourism sector.
🗓️ Date: 12th November 2026
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Venue: Africa’s Talking Office, Acacia Place
👉 RSVP Now: community.africastalking.com…
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Today we release our new website.
It tells our story, carries our new brand and states our mission: AI infrastructure that works where the cloud does not.
Crane Voice Studio launches next week, with more products to follow.
craneailabs.com
Built the product. Launched it. Still no paying customers. 😭😂
🇺🇬 Startup life is real!
🎙️ Thursday, 7 PM. Join us on X Spaces.
teapawt.org/i/spaces/1DxleVavZadKL…
#UgandaTech #StartupLife
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Most founders can build. Far fewer get paid.
Thursday we're asking two who did Socialpay and @MarzPay
how they found their first paying customers here in Uganda.
What worked. What didn't. How long it actually took.
Thu 22 Oct · 7PM EAT
teapawt.org/i/spaces/1DxleVavZadKL – at Kampala, Uganda
Set a reminder for my upcoming Space! teapawt.org/i/spaces/1DxleVavZadKL
“The last mile of AI is data.”
If we want AI that understands Africa, we must make African data accessible, representative, and useful.
Explore and contribute to Uganda’s open data ecosystem: opendata.ug/
Let’s build with Uganda’s data, for Uganda and beyond.
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Day 3 of PyCon Africa 2026 and we’re talking about the part of AI that doesn’t get enough airtime: data. 🐍📊
Roland Gafana of AI Studio gave a talk titled “The Last Mile Is Data.”
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Models get the headlines. Roland’s talk brought the focus back to the data underneath them, and why the last mile is where it all comes together.
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A hackathon is more than just coding— it’s about people, ideas and collaboration.
From SMS, Voice and USSD and real-time dashboards, the possibilities are wide open!
At @UCUniversity students and developers came together to prototype solutions for smarter, more reliable and accessible telecommunications.
This is what happens when community + technology + creativity come together.
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A big thank you to @UCUniversity and the Computer Science & Engineering Students’ Association for hosting and partnering with us for the Connecting the Future Hackathon with @Africastalking.
It was inspiring to see the team bring their talent, energy and creativity to the challenge —and even more special to celebrate team from Groundbreakers participated in the hackathon.
Thank you for building, collaborating and showing what young African talent can do!
#BuildWithAT #WeLoveNerds #FutureOfConnectivity
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At the Connecting the Future Hackathon at Uganda Christian University, students integrated AI with USSD, SMS, voice and real-time network technologies to build solutions for real telecom challenges.
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Our work in Luweero, told by @ymatias , Head of @GoogleResearch .
Yossi shared Maureen’s story: a midwife in Uganda, no internet, using EaseHealth built on MedGemma during a complicated delivery.
That work is now expanding in maternal and child health, with support from the Gates Foundation.
More to share soon.
youtu.be/ggPWZ34gGaY?si=hXNh…
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𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 : 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝘀 & 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗣 𝗔𝗜 𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗨𝗡𝗚𝗔 𝟴𝟭
A farmer in Kisumu asks about her land, out loud, in Kiswahili. She gets an answer.
No smartphone. No data bundle. No app. Weather by SMS over 2G. Inference hosted in Kenya.
One conversation, built across three continents. AI infrastructure that works where the cloud does not.
𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿.
Video is also on our youtube channel: youtu.be/Tyx5MOVO0oc?si=gONQ…
@UN @UNDP @AIHub4SD @MsingiAI @HelloTractor @mimit_gov @Cineca1969 @EkStep_Org
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𝟯.𝟰 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲. 𝗙𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀. 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.
Today, 55 organisations — convened by @gatesfoundation : announced a joint commitment: that people who speak languages underrepresented in today's AI can use these tools in their own language and voice. It builds on the Foundation's $1B commitment to equitable AI.
𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺.
We build sovereign AI infrastructure for real-world deployment , AI that works where the cloud does not. We adapt open models toward Luganda and Swahili, evaluate them for real conditions, and deploy them on the devices people already own, across Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
Four areas of work: the open language layer, tracking progress honestly, turning language data into working tools, reaching people safely. Crane adapts, evaluates, deploys and integrates in all four.
Alongside @MasakhaneNLP , @DUmuganda , @DeepIndaba and @AISingapore .
Language is infrastructure. Infrastructure gets built together.
gatesfoundation.org/ideas/pr…
😭😭 The young King of Toro, Oyo. You were crowned in 1995, when we were all still young, and many of us grew up watching you grow into the crown, step by step. It feels unreal that you are gone this soon. 💔👑
Rest in peace, Omukama. 🕊️
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At @the_oliveschool Namugongo, AI Studio Uganda joined learners, educators and parents for the AI & Innovation Exhibition 2026.
We spoke about the importance of AI in children’s education, how young people can use AI to learn and create, and why Uganda must prepare the next generation to shape the future of technology.
From offline AI to practical innovation, the message is clear: AI is already here, and our children should be ready to build with it. @STIsecretariat @ganafaR
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Uganda #AIInEducation #Education #Innovation #AIStudioUganda #FutureOfLearning
Our children shouldn't just learn about AI. They should learn with it, build with it and shape the future with it. 🇺🇬
“Roland, are we ready for AI?”
A question from a learner at The Olive School, Namugongo.
My answer: Yes.
From Luweero to Gulu, Kabale, Busitema and Masaka, people are already using AI offline to learn, experiment and solve problems. @aistudiouganda
#AI #Education #Uganda
“Roland, are we ready for AI?”
A question from a learner at The Olive School, Namugongo.
My answer: Yes.
From Luweero to Gulu, Kabale, Busitema and Masaka, people are already using AI offline to learn, experiment and solve problems. @aistudiouganda
#AI #Education #Uganda
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Imagine this:
Your grain sits in storage. Moisture creeps up. Temperature spikes. Bugs move in. By the time you notice… half the harvest is gone.
That’s the reality for most grain handlers in Uganda today, manual checks, delayed reactions, silent losses.
Now picture sensors watching every grain in real time. AI spotting trouble before it starts. PLCs adjusting conveyors and shutting systems down automatically.
No more guessing. No more waiting.
Just smarter storage, less waste, and higher profits.
The tech already exists. The only question left is… when do we start using it?
#WeLoveNerds #BuildWithAT – at Kampala, Uganda
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We made one year today.🥳
@Bronsn4 and I started Crane AI Labs without funding, borrowing what we needed, stretching what we had, and building before anyone could see the institution we imagined.
A year later, the work is real.
Still early. No longer imaginary. Year two begins.
We thank @aistudiouganda , @AIHub4SD ,@UNDP , @nvidia , @NVIDIAAI , @googlegemma , @GoogleDeepMind , @Googleorg , @cohere ,@Cohere_Labs , @adaption_ai and all partners for the support.
