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Hey y'all, as per yesterday's sessions, here's a clear list of our 10-point grand plan.
Please read through carefully, 'cause we're pretty sure you'll find a sub-initiative you can make use of.
They're all underway and we'll keep updating y'all about each. Have a look👇🏾
About yesterday's space, here's a summary of the 10 points of our initiative's grand agenda:
✅1.
#SmaStaCon
will be recurring annually
✅2. We'll roll out a parallel curriculum for students at SMACK (innovation, emotional intelligence, cultural influence + 4 more modules)
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Here's to tech multipreneur,
@dstusubira
, 2020 finalist of the Africa Prize by Britain's Royal Academy of Engineering, founder of ; an innovation hub that nurtures enterprise by bridging the gap between academia and industry at universities.
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Raising one to
@BimaBenjamin
&
@amon_nyesigye
, co-founders of , a startup that offers a pharmacovigilance software suite and service for multinational pharmaceutical companies in Europe, USA and Asia.
#HeartsAreInTheWaking
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"And so it begins..." Our awaited reveal: Presenting🥁🥁🥁... The Inaugural SMACK Startup Convention 2024
#SmaStaCon
, slated to be held in the second half of the year. Details below. [Date & venue to be announced soon]
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@matthew_ntamara
is the youngest of our highlights. His brainchild
@ShillingHappy
, still in its infancy, is an app-based discounting service availing premium products at a fraction of the cost. Let's support him verbally & practically to fuel his entrepreneurial mojo!
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We're cheering on Prof. Ogwang, founder of
@jenalifeug
, a natural medicine company applying the principle of Reverse Pharmacology in research and development of medicines. Maker of Covidex, prof's mentored many within the phramapreneurship & even digital health space.
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We're raising one to
@alex_kalanda
, founder & CEO of
@AyambeZero
, a climate tech startup aiding companies to track carbon emissions and aiming to finance 20,000 green projects in less climate-resilient countries by 2030.
#HeartsAreInTheWaking
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We're cheering on
@SsekimpiDennis
, co-founder of
@hyabioplastics
, a start-up that develops bio-degradable food packaging from re-engineered plant waste fibers.
#HeartsAreInTheWaking
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A seminal model for many fellow enterprising 1906'ers who've come after him,
@Davisthedoc
deserves a special nod. Founder & CEO of
@RocketHealthUG
, a digital health company offering 24/7 teleconsultations, pharmacy deliveries & lab tests and pickups.
#BrightlyEver
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Meanwhile, we're cheering on
@ewechu
, 2017 African Visionary Fellow, founder & CEO of
@SHONAGroup
, an accelerator firm offering SMEs a combination of financial solutions & hands-on management support from industry experts to stir up the spirit of enterprise.
#UpAndOn
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Here's to
@ReggieBoss01
, founder & CEO of , a uniquely tech-centric finance company offering investment advisory services to both foreign & local investors/development partners.
#MightyUndertakingHere
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Today's lively highlight, lauded by CNBC Africa, is the sauce-dripping neurologist
@shemopolot
, founder of
@thegoodcurrency
, a World Economic Forum-spotlighted platform leveraging technology to solve prevailing societal problems, one at a time.
#BrightlyEver
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Easing towards the week's midpoint, we're cheering on
@boris_nahabwe
, co-founder & COO of
@tubayotravel
, an online travel marketplace for users to easily find fun trips and unique accommodation spaces in Africa.
#DucInAltum
#HigherFlights
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Plunging our claws into the week, we're highlighting
@Ddembeandy
, an AU-EU Youth Hub fellow, founder & CEO of MobiKlinic (
@klinicuganda
), a digital health company revolutionizing last-mile healthcare delivery.
#ForHigherFlights
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We're highlighting soft-spoken, ambitious socialpreneur
@GeorgeBakka
, founder & CEO of
@patasente
, a U.S. African Development Foundation-funded online supply chain helping African businesses to undertake e-procurement, settle payments & secure financing.
#BrightlyEver
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We toast one to
@katende_roland
, founder & CTO of , a real estate tech startup that seeks to transform the way the sector's players do business; through a data-driven approach to mgt & marketing, aided by innovative analytical tools.
#UpAndOn
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We're toasting to
@douglaskarugaba
, founder & CEO of
@InnovexUG
, a Gaia Impact Fund-allotted, CNN-spotlighted startup creating technology equipment and solutions that remotely monitor the use and performance of off-grid solar energy.
#MightyUndertakingHere
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Recovering into the week, we're easing back by highlighting
@amrichafrica
(Emmanuel Emodek), Prince of Wales Prize-winning, CNN-featured founder of
@ChapchapAfrica
, a fintech company offering digital tools to African businesses, exposing them to new revenue streams.
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We're cheering on
@kusiimwa
, co-founder & Principal Product Manager of Mokachi Labs, an initiative listed for the MTN Ace Skilling program in 2023. They aim at empowering youthful entrepreneurs through an innovative tech-centered education.
#LivesAreInTheMaking
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We're cheering on
@mukisad2
, founder & CEO of
@Ridelink_Inc
; a premier e-logistics company making cargo freight affordable to small and medium-sized businesses, across Africa & beyond.
#UpAndOn
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Pluming wings for the weekend, we're spotlighting
@sbkaku
, MTN Innovation Award-winning founder & CEO of
@AppAboutAfrica
, a lifestyle bookings platform for service-based businesses in Africa.
#1906Energy
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Cheers to the resilient
@karugabaivanjr
, founder & CEO of , a consumer and industrial electronics design and manufacturing company, currently making affordable plugin computers.
#BrightlyEver
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Raising one to
@senksg
, founder of
@hi_shule
, an edtech company that offers innovate digital solutions to enhance physics learning in schools.
#UpAndOn
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Good day to check out "Startups & F*ups": —which Spotify awarded Africa's most listened to tech podcast of 2023. It's hosted by
@TherealKwizera
, a Kigali-based
@TsunamizFC
, who's the Ecosystem & Partnerships lead of Africa’s biggest startups hub
@norrskenEA
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Pressing on through Jan's 1st half, we're raising one to
@the_tenderer
, co-founder of , a firm offering bespoke advisory and enterprise support services across the innovation and entrepreneurship value chain in Africa.
#WithAllTheMight
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Here's to
@lubzo23
, co-founder at , a platform with easy-to-use tools which aid in creating beautiful and rich customizable data visualizations within a few clicks.
#UpAndOn
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Hey guys, if you know any weevil app developer keen on collaborating towards something exciting (educational apps more-so), please let us know.
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"...Phase 2 loading; grander & unprecedented." 15 followers left to game-changing announcement_
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Easing into the week, we're highlighting
@jerang
, co-founder of , a company simplifying household decarbonization, aiming towards carbon neutrality. Formerly
@Linkedin
's Director of Software Engineering, Jerry's an art-loving foresighted techie.
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Here's to
@byaruhj
, founder of
@hodjs
, a concepts & events execution company, and founding partner of
@roketelkomug
, which was the first telecommunications company to roll out a fiber connection between Uganda & Tanzania.
#MightyUndertaking
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Teasing s/thing out loud:
Premise 1: Literature is compulsory at SMACK O-level.
Premise 2: Among SMACK alumni are young awesome authors like
@JItakali
etc.
Derived musing: It presents an unharnessed gap to be explored.
Let us know if you're thinking what we're thinking_
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"And closer it draws..." Fuller details of the upcoming inaugural SMACK Startup Convention
#SmaStaCon
below.
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With 48 left to 500 followers, warming up for the cool announcement we'll soon make, we're listing founders we've so far highlighted in the environmental startup field: L-R;
@alex_kalanda
;
@AyambeZero
@jerang
;
@SsekimpiDennis
;
@hyabioplastics
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We're raising one to , a 2021 selectee onto Jack Ma's Africa's Business Heroes Top 50 Shortlist, founder & CEO of
@KanzuCode
, a fintech company that's digitizing saving and investment clubs.
#BoysWanted1906
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With 21 left to 500 followers, in our last compilation before our huge announcement, we're clustering founders we've so far listed in the tech field: From L-R;
@TolivaI5028
;
@karugabaivanjr
;
@douglaskarugaba
;
@InnovexUG
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Raising one to
@_AObel
, founder of (Aredah Ventures), a company that believes in empowering people to build their own solutions. They specialize in creating unique tech-enabled ventures based on Africans' work/home/online experiences.
#UpAndOn
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Hey guys, if you know any weevil app developer, or if you're one, who's fascinated about rethinking education (educational apps, learning design, alternative learning), please let us know.
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We're cheering on
@AinomugishaAlex
, co-founder of
@FXGUgandaVR
, a tech initiative that's building a thriving VR/AR ecosystem in Uganda through skilling & supporting local developers and artists.
#UpAndOn
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Up & on in 2024, cheers to
@NdiraSimon
, founder of
@Compelling_Work
, a Malawian/Ugandan development consultancy firm promoting health & development through practical digital solutions like deploying eHealth systems & continent-wide digital health advisory.
#1906Energy
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Here's to
@TolivaI5028
, co-founder of Shortlisted for this year's TotalEnergy's rEVolution Hackathon, the tech startup is purposing to bridge the digital divide and democratize access to knowledge through accessible AI solutions.
#1906Energy
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With 62 left to 500 followers, while gearing up for the awesome announcement we'll soon make, we're highlighting founders we've so far listed in the digital health field: From L-R;
@Davisthedoc
;
@RocketHealthUG
@Ddembeandy
;
@klinicuganda
@NdiraSimon
;
@Compelling_Work
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Once we reach 500 followers, we have a game-changing announcement for y'all! 114 to go.
#MightyUndertakingHere
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Meanwhile do y'all know of any banger podcasts hosted/co-hosted by weevils (whether general, tech, art, philosophy or self-improvement but not corny manosphere crap)? We'd like to test a theory. Any examples you've come across?
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#WeekendPoll
:
@smackists
have produced 3 Vice Presidents (political), ≥3 Buganda Katikiro's including the current (apolitical/cultural), numerous ministers (political) & is the secondary school with 2nd highest number of MPs in house as per last assessment (political)>>cont'd...
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Hey y'all, we were meant to embark on a new series of posts tonight. But after consultation, we concluded it was too close to the concept of the soon-coming announcement, and it would give the reveal away. So until we hit 500 followers, we're keeping a lid on it.
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Since innovative ideas are born from both our thrills & frustrations, we're making it a point to highlight thoughtful clips like this one from cerebral 1906'er
@vssebuyungo
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Super-psyched to see
@matthew_ntamara
's brainchild—that we'd highlighted in its infancy—thriving. Let's offer him support; both practical & verbal!
#DucInAltum
#BrightlyEver
💬 It's a User Spotlight Saturday party here at happyshillig! Share your favorite user-generated content related to our app using the link below and join our new promotion.
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In 2023's last festal moments, we're highlighting
@rkayondo
, co-founder & director of , an e-marketplace that functions like an auction-style digital clearinghouse designed to match buyers and sellers of agricultural commodities.
#UpAndOn
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#YearEndPoll
: Weevils, what'd you do with great ideas you can't act upon?
A. Keep to self: "If it's not me, I'd rather no one does it"
B. Submit to idea pool of better-placed weevil entrepreneurs & be named "conceiver"
C. Wait: someone else'll get same idea
D. Talk with mentor
A
6
B
25
C
2
D
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Hey guys, if you know any weevil app developer, or if you're one, who's fascinated with music & its intersection with tech, please reach out to us to collaborate on something groundbreaking_
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To All Dear Esteemed Weevils
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT DROPPING ON FRIDAY NIGHT... ⏳
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Hey weevils, please take a minute to fill this google form: : It'll assess your
#SmaStaCon
(SMACK Startup Convention) anticipation. Though non-weevils will be welcomed, this form is for
@smackists
for planning's sake. A non-smackist form will be sent soon.
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#WeekendPoll
: 1906'ers are a uniquely enterprising bunch. What can be done to take this trend from being a cool prospect for
@smackists
to something the school's distinguished for (i.e. men who identify societal problems, ideate, prototype, and roll out world-changing solutions)?
On-campus ideation hubs
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Founder-student mixers
9
Pitch-centric extra class
6
Full school department
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#UpAndFreakingOn
**we've hit 500 followers, but we'll make the grand announcement of our unprecedented next phase once the
#TSL6Finale
is done** Let's first party @ the TSL Grand Finale🔥🔥
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@bwiranda_
@smackists
@SMACK_UG
#UpAndOn
...., do y'all think there's more weevils could do in terms of fusing tech with the political scene; eg civic apps, digital governance index platforms, app-based youth mobilization? Or does innovation within politics attract the wrong attention?
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If any of y'all weevils have ever crowdfunded for an artistic cause in the past & are comfortable sharing your experience, reach out to us. Some among us are building something & would appreciate your unique viewpoint_
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Cool simple vid from quite a while ago by a featured 1906'er for a chill-learning minute of y'all's weekend_
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Hey guys, if you know any weevil app developer fascinated by the intersection between tech and politics (civic apps, digital governance index apps, etc), or education, or environmental conservation, please let us know.
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#WeekendPoll
: Seeing fellow weevils building unconventional innovations in exciting fields:
A. Makes me think I too can
B. Has no effect on me: "I'm not living in a movie"
C. Makes me glad for them, but I can't be like them
D. Drives me to associate & collaborate with them
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21
B
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C
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D
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More of y'all than we'd expected filled the form. Great to note this level of enthusiasm. Responses are still coming in, so we're leaving it open for 1 more day. [Weevils only for now.] If you haven't, please take less than 1 minute to fill the form below.
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#WeekendPoll
: Weevils, by nature, infiltrate. And so have
@smackists
across numerous fields of innovation. Yet with influence comes a greater hunger for "more!" So we ask; which of the below is the most weevil-overlooked field where we could apply some more "mighty undertaking"?
EdTech (Education+Tech)
11
Entertainment Startups
11
PoliTech (Politics+Tech)
9
InvesTech
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Hear ye, O 1906'ers, we've got a huge announcement coming up once we reach the 500-follower mark_
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#WeekendPoll
: Some among us would like a bit of feedback for the sake of assessment. If any of y'all have ever contacted or further checked out a founder/startup after seeing them highlighted on this page, by what means did you do so?
Twitter/X DMs
12
Email on startup's w/site
3
Looked at their X profile
10
Googled other details
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Hey y'all, as promised, here's the non-weevil google form. It's to assess anticipation for
#SmaStaCon
(SMACK Startup Convention) among non-smackists. Please take less than a minute to fill it.
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#EndofWeekendPoll
: Note - This question isn't an announcement of anything, just a hypothetical. If there were to be a SMACK Creatives Fund, which category of weevils would you like the yearly recipients to be?
Entertainment Startups
12
A groundbreaking creative
46
Talent mentors
16
A new promising creative
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#WeekendPoll
: If you're a weevil who aspires to be or already are in an "unconventional" profession, i.e. pioneering techie/founder/innovative creative, this page was started to make you feel seen. More tangible support coming, but so far, d'you feel seen/planned-for/cared-for?
Yeah, thanks a thousand!
28
By proxy, so not so much_
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Not yet...
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@Spartakussug
Terrific input,
@Spartakussug
[coolest fumbling weevil ever... we digress], all feedback from these polls is taken seriously, however unorthodox. A lot to pick from this.
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🕯️🕯️fire concept wethinks
#wouldslap
🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️
An end-to-end digital health insurance startup.
1. Online Registration and Onboarding
2. Underwriting using AI & ML
3. Client dashboard on utilization
4. Telehealth Services
5. Automated claims processing and settlement with AI fraud detection.
6. Data-driven,
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@kusiimwa
Hey
@kusiimwa
, this is some pretty cool thinking. On the point of seasoned folks, we have a network of stalwart weevil entrepreneurs & other int'l well-wishers Some here, some in San Fan, some in EU. Many announcements to be made at
#SmaStaCon
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#WeekEndPoll
: In the last poll, y'all said innovation within entertainment-tech is the most weevil-overlooked field. Why so?
A. No weevil forerunner to emulate
B. Gutted by global companies' market capture
C. Just wait, we're cooking
D. Easier to participate than innovate
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13
B
5
C
11
D
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@ReggieBoss01
🔥It's that unassuming attitude, coupled with a spirit of excellence, that we love about you,
@ReggieBoss01
. Even greater things ahead
#UpAndOn
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@JulianSsonko
@BimaBenjamin
@Davisthedoc
@Spartakussug
#1906Energy
Great things ahead,
@JulianSsonko
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@kusiimwa
We have no issue and are open to bouncing off ideas & getting help & vice versa fro-and-to 1902 folks or even the red lion tribe on Masaka Road. In fact, we're positive we will in several forms.
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@ShemOpolot
@thegoodcurrency
Bless His name. We're glad you're among our number. Greater things ahead!
#1906Energy
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#SmaStaCon
detailed update soon: Before announcing date, venue & time, we'll resume highlighting weevil founders & their awesome initiatives, 4 profiles after which we'll drop the updates.
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@joram_acana
@TolivaI5028
@karugabaivanjr
@douglaskarugaba
@InnovexUG
#1906Energy
...hit us with a dm when you're done cooking. Great to see y'all folks inspired by the posts.
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@TherealKwizera
@jhusdero
Thanks,
@TherealKwizera
!... hey
@jhusdero
, would you be up for an exciting innovation collabo related to what's described above? If so, could you kindly give us a follow so we could dm each other?
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@Ddembeandy
@smackists
#1906Energy
@Ddembeandy
, this right here is a big part of what this platform's all about. Bigger things in the works in this regard! The sentiment is mutual_
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@boris_nahabwe
@smackists
@BimaBenjamin
@Davisthedoc
Glad you're psyched,
@boris_nahabwe
, great things ahead.
#1906Energy
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@CedricNdilima
@smackists
@RwandaMoD
4. We have a yearly program we're looking forward to staging. Given that it's not yet rolled out, it'd be cool to give you a rough idea of it. We'd only need help in the form of counsel from you, unless you feel otherwise. Looking forward to a dm
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"What does this have to do with the focus of this page?" you ask. Some among us are researching the college's input towards modern innovation on the political/mass leadership scene; specifically the intersection between politics & tech. D'you think we've slacked in this area?
Ug's no place for that
6
I know positive examples
6
Had never considered it
13
Show poll results
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@VictorLusiba
@katende_roland
Thanks for that point,
@VictorLusiba
. To be concise, we make the posts brief. Also, we're not verified and Twitter has a character limit, unless the posts are to be threads. Fortunately, we put co's handles/links to sites. You're also free to ask in comments. Dos this help?
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@VictorLusiba
@katende_roland
Thanks
@VictorLusiba
, we value your time and observations. Interestingly, we've also received feedback opposite to this. Certain followers have expressed that brevity in posts make them less overwhelmed and more likely to read entire tweet. Plus, post analytics indicate so too.
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@CedricNdilima
@smackists
@RwandaMoD
1. You could give us follow, makes it easier to dm
2. Amplification Retweet/like now & then
3.We're looking forward to rolling out: smackist ideation hubs and founder-mentee programs; telling more ent'ship minded weevils would be appreciated.
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@JeaniceJom
Diversity of thought's an interesting thing🤣. We do these polls to take some data-driven steps (despite the low sample space & loose forum) in the cool programs we plan on surprising y'all with especially in 2024.
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@agaarthur12
#UpAndOn
, Love how expectant you are. Been keeping note of it. Will be glad to have you_
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@vssebuyungo
Massive pleasure, man. We appreciate your philosophical mind and how multifaceted you are. Great things ahead!
#UpAndOn
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