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                <![CDATA[ Faith Nkatha Gitonga appointed non-executive director at Capital A Investment Bank ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 04 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Faith will play a key role as the board seeks to strengthen governance, technology and digital transformation while expanding its investment banking business. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ How three tech leaders are building impact outside work  ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 04 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Beyond the day to day activities involved in running a tech department, tech leaders also engage in different community building initiatives in their free time. Paul Kioi, head of technology at ICEA Lion , Paul Njoroge, head of ICT at Hand in Hand Eastern Africa, and Raymond Machary, principal ICT officer at Ocean Road Cancer Institute, reveal how their off-duty passions sharpen their leadership and uplift their communities.  ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ How Uzma Qureishi oversaw Aga Khan Hospital's bold EHR leap ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 02 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ In 2022, Uzma Qureishi, Senior Manager of EHR Operations at Aga Khan Hospital Nairobi, led one of the boldest bets of her career, overseeing the institution's transition to a paperless system. The transition wrote the hospital into the region's history books as the first hospital in East Africa to run a full Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, namely MEDITECH Expanse. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Joel Busienei appointed head of IT at Dubai Islamic Bank  ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 01 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ In his new role at DIB, Joel will be responsible for aligning the bank’s technology roadmap with business expansion.  ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Tropical Bank's Ivas Kwikiriza reflects on digital banking evolution  ]]>
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            <![CDATA[ https://cito-ea.com/articles/tropical-banks-ivas-kwikiriza-reflects-on-digital-banking-evolution/ ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 31 August 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ In his over 12-year IT career in banking, Tropical Bank's head of business technology, Ivas Kwikiriza has watched the industry move from simple alternative channels like ATMs to fully digital ones like mobile applications and USSD. He is convinced the next shift will be the biggest one yet, a future where banking technology stops looking like technology at all. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ AAR Healthcare Uganda's Lilian Kamara says cybersecurity is everyone's responsibility ]]>
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            <![CDATA[ https://cito-ea.com/articles/aar-healthcare-ugandas-lilian-kamara-says-cybersecurity-is-everyones-responsibility/ ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 26 August 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ In today's rapidly evolving enterprise landscape, cybersecurity can no longer be treated as a behind-the-desk operation. Lilian Kamara, IT Manager at AAR Healthcare Uganda, shares her insights on why technology leaders must spearhead this shift and embed a security-first culture across the modern enterprise. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Old Mutual Uganda's CIO Geoffrey Andima puts simplicity at the heart of IT ]]>
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            <![CDATA[ https://cito-ea.com/articles/old-mutual-ugandas-cio-geoffrey-andima-drives-it-efficiency/ ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 24 August 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Geoffrey Andima has spent his career trying to find the simplest and most efficient IT solutions. As Old Mutual Uganda’s CIO, he is applying the same instinct to artificial intelligence, using it to streamline processes and modernise systems at the insurance company. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ IT heads weigh in on cybersecurity's talent problem  ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 21 August 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ A 2025 PwC report placed knowledge and skills gaps among the top challenges organisations face when implementing AI for cyber defence. Mpesa Africa’s head of cybersecurity Tim Theuri, Ecobank Uganda’s head of IT Juliet Kyomugisha and WASREB’s head of IT Brenda Anzagi weigh in on the challenge of finding talent in IT. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Fix policy gaps before scaling AI, CIO Summit panellists say ]]>
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            <![CDATA[ https://cito-ea.com/articles/fix-policy-gaps-before-scaling-ai-cio-summit-panellists-say/ ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 19 August 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ At the recent CIO of the Future Summit held in Kampala, Uganda, participants identified AI as one of their main concerns with loopholes in AI governance emerging as one of the greatest hindrances towards its effective use. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ How Sulaiman Mugalasi used AI to transform Airtel Money Uganda ]]>
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            <![CDATA[ https://cito-ea.com/articles/how-sulaiman-mugalasi-used-ai-to-transform-airtel-money-uganda/ ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 17 August 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ For a long time, the debate around AI has revolved around whether AI will replace humans and whether businesses especially in Africa are ready to fully embrace AI. While these debates continue, Airtel Money, Uganda has already integrated AI into its systems and is already reaping the benefits as the CIO, Sulaiman Mugalasi shares. ]]>
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