Nation Media Group’s NTV Uganda Partners With Outbox To Launch Ideas Lab With $4,000 For Winner

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outboxNation Media Group’s NTV Uganda and Outbox, Uganda’s top incubation, collaboration and co-creation space for techies have partnered to launch The ideas lab an initiative they say seeks disruptive innovative digital ideas to improve the way news is collected and disseminated, media engages with audiences and push for new production and revenue models in media.
“We seek to engage with individuals and organisations that have ideas that improve delivery platforms, amplify the relevance or usefulness, deepens media’s understanding of audiences, boosts the media’s resource base by diversifying business models and enhances the impact and shelf life of news,” the firms said.
The winning teams will take home a cash prize of UGX 10 Million ($3,875.14) plus an incubation fellowship at Outbox and a deployment fellowship at NTV Uganda to realise the idea to the market.
For more details or to register visit http://ideaslab.ntvuganda.co.ug by September 12th.

 

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Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Sam Wakoba is a pan-African technology journalist, author, entrepreneur, technology business mentor, judge, educationalist, and a sought-after speaker and panelist across Africa’s innovation ecosystem. He is the convenor of the popular monthly #TechNight evening event and the #StartupEast Awards and Conference, platforms that bring together startup founders, developers, entrepreneurs, investors, content creators, and tech professionals from across the continent. For more than 16 years, Sam has reported on and analysed Africa’s technology landscape, covering some of the continent’s most impactful, and at times controversial policies, programs, investors, co-founders, startups, and corporations. His work is known for its independence, depth, and fairness, with a singular goal of helping build and strengthen Africa’s nascent technology ecosystem. Beyond journalism, Sam is a business analyst and consultant, working with brands, universities, corporates, SMEs, and startups across East Africa, as well as international companies entering the East African market or scaling across Africa. In his free time, he volunteers as a consulting editor and fintech analyst at Business Tech Kenya, a business, technology, and data firm that publishes reports, reviews, and insights on business and technology trends in Kenya. Follow him on X: @SamWakoba