Uganda accelerates digital public services under Zawedde
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on The Observer
Uganda accelerated the digitisation of its public services under Aminah Zawedde, including reducing business registration to three hours and registering more than 11 million pupils in a digital database. Her move to the Office of the Prime Minister opens a new phase, according to The Observer.
Uganda has reduced the time needed to register a business to about three hours, from up to 15 days previously, through public systems developed under the leadership of Aminah Zawedde at the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology and National Guidance, The Observer reports. More than 11 million pupils are also recorded in a digital school register, while millions of Parish Development Model beneficiaries have received funding tracked through a digital system.
Aminah Zawedde, a software engineer who spent five years as permanent secretary at the ministry, was transferred on 9 November 2026 to the Office of the Prime Minister, where she is to oversee coordination. President Yoweri Museveni appointed Professor Stephen Akandwanaho to succeed her, The Observer reports.
Between 2022 and 2024, three national information and communications technology job fairs offered more than 11,000 job, internship and training opportunities to young people. The ministry also says that more than 160,000 citizens and small businesses benefited from digital skills training, including 8,192 people trained by a solar-powered mobile classroom in 58 locations across more than 25 districts.
