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Alternate Approach to Legal Independent Election Tallying

February 20, 201610 Comments

The Uganda elections are more or less over with less than 6 hours for the Uganda Electoral Commission (EC) to announce the results for the presidential elections. Given all the time on our hands, with no social media, the team at Styx Technology Group designed the following alternative approach to independent electoral vote tallying for future elections that provides […]

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Versatile Blogger Award

February 8, 20166 Comments

I have been nominated by Jemima Nalumansi who has the full list of how the nomination got to me akin to walking like the Muganda lady of the Ffumbe clan (http://www.ffumbeclan.org/) she is, so anyway a tough challenge she put up to me but I have to rise up not to disappoint…. The rules of engagement: Thank […]

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Tech Tip: Websites on Github with Jekyll

January 30, 2016Leave a Comment

We have been facing a challenge on how to manage the Styx Technology Group corporate website without having dedicated resources to host, deal with security, updates and maintenance. Having been in the website business for over a decade at the turn of Y2K, having an easily maintainable solution was key for the long haul. Enter GitHub pages […]

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OpenMRS Implementor Series 101 – Building a distribution package

December 29, 2015Leave a Comment

I am not sure where this will end, however it is my way of giving back to the OpenMRS community that has provided an excellent learning platform and great support to me over the last 6 months, I have been using the software tools. My intention is to share what I know, as a way […]

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Syzygy – Release 2 – Uganda Mobile Money Cost Estimator

December 4, 2015Leave a Comment

Syzygy is a Uganda focused utility calculator (launched by this post http://ssmusoke.com/2015/08/11/launching-syzygy-uganda-focused-utility-calculator/), this new release adds a tool not available anywhere else allowing you to estimate the costs of a mobile money transaction. Are you sending to a registered number, unregistered or trying to withdraw from an agent or ATM? Hope this app saves you the […]

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Alternate Approach to MTN SIM Card Registration Process & Web Tool

November 16, 201518 Comments

MTN Uganda has finally put together an application to support the online registration of simcards. However the process as outlined in the Dignited article (http://www.dignited.com/15503/you-can-now-register-your-mtn-uganda-sim-card-online-heres-how/) requires a user to download a registration form, upload it then wait until MTN staff can get back on the registration status. This blog post provides an alternate design and […]

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Alternate Approach to Voice Price Wars in Telecom Industry in Uganda

October 20, 20151 Comment

My colleagues at Styx Technology Group are looking at alternate approaches to telecos in Uganda to increase their ARPU (Average Revenue Per Unit) a metric for revenue from each customer, instead of the current price war tagged to 3/= per second (US$ 0.1 per minute). Accept that voice is now commodity, being pushed further out […]

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TechTip: Moving a Project Between Git Repositories

October 5, 2015Leave a Comment

I tend to write these so that I do not forget them, and possibly to help others who may be face similar challenges. The question is why would somebody want to do this, well usually its because of a change in Git hosting providers or probably change in project ownership. The process is as follows: […]

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OpenMRS Module Development Learnings – 102

September 24, 20151 Comment

Update November 2018: This blog post has been superseded by the OpenMRS SDK (https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/OpenMRS+SDK) My team mates and I are completing a number of OpenMRS workshops focused on improving our module development capability. This blog post captures the unwritten lessons that we have picked up as a way of giving back our lessons to help others in […]

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