Sherifah Tumusiime and Linda Alinda Ikanza have been named among Flashes Magazine’s list of ‘Women Driving Africa’s Digital Revolution’.
The list that was published for the magazine’s November 2019 issue features ‘women who have claimed their share of Africa’s fast-growing tech industry that remains male-dominated’.
Tumusiime and Ikanza are featured alongside other tech trailblazers like Rebecca Enonchong, Jamila Abbas (Kenya), Samrawit Fikra (Ethiopia), among others.
Ikanza a Ugandan lawyer, is the innovator of the employee rights app known as Nkola, which uses technology to resolve or prevent disputes at the workplace with the app intended to inspire a culture of hard work and personal sacrifice.
Sherifah Tumusiime is the co-founder and CEO at ZimbaWomen, an IT solutions company based in Kampala, that specializes in providing technical and software solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that enable them to manage and scale their businesses more professionally.
Flashes Magazine, is a monthly magazine by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation. The foundation that was launched in 2007 by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai aims to empower future generations and enable them to devise sustainable solutions to facilitate the process of knowledge and research in the Arab World.
