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born 1984 Uganda
Evelyn Namara is a Ugandan technologist, technology entrepreneur, and corporate executive. She is the founder of Vouch Digital, a company established in 2015.
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Humility is knowing that there’s always someone better than you at something and that there’s always someone who wants to learn from you.
My definition of innovation is finding a new way of problem solving that’s relevant, resilient and disruptive of the status quo in nature.
Learning that is personalized, unique and treats each child as different is key to helping children thrive.
What’s important is finding unique aspects of each child’s learning ability and capitalizing on that to make them better.
For a while I worked for a large corporation in the telecommunications sector.
Some thrive in a group setting, some grasp the information quickly from a teacher, and others prefer to learn on their own.
I’ve been involved with lots of innovations as a mentor and implementer.
Helping a couple of start-ups gain a foothold and start operations.
This space excites me a lot because the possibilities are endless.
I moved on to join a startup called Solar Sister which distributes solar solutions and empowers rural women to better their livelihoods.
When it became much more about maintenance, I grew bored.
Having previously been with a small IT support company.
That’s why the concept of Blended learning where teaching is done partly using technology and traditional teaching methods works better for young children.
It can be as simple as using technology and complementing that with a teacher, or adding different aspects like peer-to-peer learning, self learning and technology.
The blended learning approach helped children learn better and retain the knowledge more easily.
I invest in building a strong network of people I look up to and also build a similar network of people I can help mentor.
Every single evening after that, I found an excuse to go to the lab, sometimes not leaving until very late.
Through research and utilizing my networks, I create a lot of opportunities for myself.
During my career I realized I loved the process of setting up new systems.
Technological Innovation can be a driving force in creating long term solutions for many of the issues we face in our communities today.
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