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Uganda’s tech corridors have been thrown into celebration after Dr. Aminah Zawedde, the iron-lady steering the ICT Ministry, was dramatically unveiled among Africa’s Top 45 Most Influential Women in Digital Transformation.
The bombshell recognition, dropped in the hot-off-the-press November 2025 CIO Africa Magazine, has crowned Zawedde as the only Ugandan rubbing shoulders with continental tech giants shaping Africa’s future.
Sources inside the ICT Ministry whispered to our reporter that the soft-spoken PS has been working “like a machine,” silently positioning Uganda as a serious contender in the global digital race — and now the continent has taken notice.
From Rwanda’s AI champion Paula Ingabire, to tech titan Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa of Naspers, to She Code Africa founder Ada Nduka Oyom, the list reads like a hall of fame — and right there, flying the black-yellow-red flag, is Dr. Zawedde.
Insiders say her rise is no accident. Before joining government, she was a computer wizard and scholar at Makerere, armed with a Software Engineering PhD from the Netherlands, and known for churning out game-changing academic work.
In 2025, she pulled off one of her biggest masterstrokes — launching Uganda’s ICT Intellectual Property Guidelines, a landmark tool finally giving innovators the protection they’ve begged for. Tech hubs across Kampala are still celebrating the move.
But what has stunned continental analysts most is Zawedde’s quiet but powerful push to reposition Uganda in the global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) economy — a sector worth billions, now eyeing Kampala thanks to her reforms.
While other officials chase cameras, Zawedde has been busy building systems, policies, and digital power centers — and the results are now too loud to ignore.
A senior official at the ministry told us: “Mama has put Uganda on the map. She doesn’t shout, but her work shouts for her.”
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