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David Okwii

@oquidave

Software dev 👨🏿‍💻, AI & internet safety, eco-living spaces , Urban farmer 🚜

Kampala, Uganda Katılım Aralık 2008
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Asa (아사)@slugada·
Kicking off today’s meetup of Building AI Agents for real World using @Africastalking APIs with @Nickle_las, Founder of SocialPay. He dives into product readiness, innovation and what it takes to build solutions that truly scale. #BuildWithAT
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David Okwii@oquidave·
The real opportunity 🎤🎙️🤖
Africa's Talking Developer Community Uganda@ATCommunityKla

@oquidave is live breaking down Voice Agents and how to plug @Africastalking Voice APIs directly into your AI Agent stack. But it goes deeper than the tech. He's calling out a real opportunity: African voices are underrepresented in AI. The chance to build, train, and own that space is RIGHT NOW. Don't sleep on it. #VoiceAI #AIAgents #AfricasTalking #Hackathon #WeLoveNerds #BuildWithAT

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David Okwii@oquidave·
The closest National park from Kampala is about 230–253 km!!
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Sam, AGONA@samagona·
As a country, we Ugandans have failed ourselves. We pride ourselves on education and boast of many institutions of learning, yet we cannot guarantee something as basic as safe roads for our people. The endless road carnage we witness across the country every day is proof that we still have no clear and lasting solution. After every tragic accident, the response is predictable. A few roadblocks are set up for a short time, often turning into opportunities for small bribes from motorists rather than real safety enforcement. Then everything returns to normal until the next accident takes more lives. Last night, one of those lives was Tonny Odokonyero, a brilliant Ugandan whose future held immense promise. Tonny was the best student at Lango College in 2001, scoring AAB in PEM, and the overall best science student in Lira District. He later graduated with First Class Honours in Economics from Makerere University, emerging as the best student in his cohort. He went on to serve as Manager, Macroeconomics, at the Uganda Development Bank and was scheduled to defend his PhD at the University of Pretoria next month. But his journey was cut short in a Mega Bus accident at Bweyale, a tragedy that reminds us how easily this country continues to lose some of its brightest minds. Tonny’s death is not just a personal or family loss; it is a national loss. Until Uganda confronts the crisis of road safety with real solutions, we will continue burying people whose only mistake was travelling on our roads. 💔
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Andy Kristian Agaba@andykristian·
FREE!!! Are you a Ugandan student or teacher? A friend of mine & his team have created an application with all past UNEB examinations for PLE, UCE, and UACE to help you prepare for yourself or for your students. 32,000 users are already taking advantage. unebpastpapers.com
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Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
Everyone’s reading this as “tech company does Africa partnership.” The real story is why Rwanda specifically. Rwanda is trying to eliminate cervical cancer by 2027, three years ahead of WHO’s global target. They already have 90% HPV vaccination coverage for girls, 81% treatment coverage, and 15,000 community health workers going door to door across 30 districts screening women aged 30-49. Their screening rate is at 31% against a 70% target, which means they need to more than double throughput in under two years. That screening bottleneck is exactly where AI compounds. Pattern recognition on HPV DNA tests, triage prioritization across 1.3 million eligible women, resource allocation across rural health centers. Rwanda already built the physical infrastructure. They already have the human network. What they lack is processing speed at the edge of their health system. This is what makes Rwanda a better AI deployment partner than countries 10x its GDP. They’ve been running national-scale public health programs with measurable outcomes since 2011. They have a community health insurance system covering 91% of the population at roughly $2 per person. They have a government that sets aggressive targets and actually reports against them. Compare that to most AI health pilots: disconnected from national health systems, no community distribution layer, no insurance infrastructure to absorb follow-up treatment costs. The tech works in the demo. It fails at scale because there’s nobody to act on the AI’s output. Anthropic picked the country where AI has the shortest path from prediction to treatment. Rwanda built that path over 15 years of health system investment. The 2,000 Claude Pro licenses for educators and the developer API credits are nice, but the cervical cancer screening acceleration is where you’d actually measure whether frontier AI changes population-level health outcomes. If screening coverage moves from 31% to 70% by 2027, that’s the first real proof point for AI in public health anywhere in the world.
Anthropic@AnthropicAI

We've signed an MOU with the Government of Rwanda—the first partnership of its kind in Africa—to bring AI to health, education, and other public sectors. Read more: anthropic.com/news/anthropic…

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Lango Unveiled 🌴
Lango Unveiled 🌴@TimoGodsgiven·
In the heart of dryness, green trees bloom a symbol of hope and endurance. Lira Mayor's Garden is a green oasis! Amidst the dry season, the big trees still thrive, offering shade and serenity. A perfect spot to unwind and connect with nature. #LangoUnveiled
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Asa (아사)@slugada·
“2026 AI Dev Trends” highlights a major shift: smaller, specialized models (SLMs) are becoming practical alternatives to large cloud models enabling offline AI, lower costs and stronger data privacy for developers building real-world apps. - @ernest_o_o_ with @ATCommunityKla
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Asa (아사)@slugada·
Software Engineer @oquidave with @ATCommunityKla kicks us off with MCP Servers + AI Agents. Model Context Protocol (MCP) helps AI agents connect to tools, files & APIs in a structured way, making coding agents more reliable, context-aware & scalable for real-world dev workflows
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David Okwii@oquidave·
2026 is the year of Small Language models(SLMs). They’re free or low cost, offline, private and secure. A good example is Ollama. You don’t have to use a giant cloud LLM.
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Ernest from Medx talking about AI development trends in 2026 at @Africastalking office in K’la
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David Okwii@oquidave·
Glad we have @niyimic talking about AI and Tech generally at the @stanbicug economic forum. Lots of talk about Oil, but that only makes us an extractive economy, not a knowledge-based Tech-driven one.
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Dignited@Dignited·
Okusevinga Explained: Uganda’s Mobile-First Investment Product That Puts Treasury Bills in Your SIM Card dignited.com/119472/okusevi…
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Nimi Pamela
Nimi Pamela@nimipamela0·
CocoLand Farm Resort stands out because it’s intentional & natural From the way meals are prepared to how guests are welcomed, every moment is shaped to help you feel connected to nature, to the people you’re with, and to yourself #VisitCocoLand
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Kamoga munawa@KamogaMunawa·
I’m loving how Kenyans Gen Z are picking up on Ugandan affairs…🇺🇬🇰🇪
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