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Careers.sl Success Story: The First Salone Job Fair
Careers.sl Success Story: The First Salone Job Fair
If you weren’t in Sierra Leone this January, you missed out on attending the first Salone Job Fair on January 16th at the US Embassy’s…
Mahrukh Murtaza
Feb 7, 2018
How Human Centered Design can Help ICTs to Innovate for WASH
How Human Centered Design can Help ICTs to Innovate for WASH
Background to the Water and Sanitation Situation in Sierra Leone
Usman Khaliq
Dec 4, 2017
9 Ways to Recruit like a Boss in Sierra Leone
9 Ways to Recruit like a Boss in Sierra Leone
Andra Marin, Lead of Careers.sl, Sierra Leone’s biggest jobs board, breaks down what employers can do to recruit the best local talent
Andra Marin
Nov 29, 2017
How Open Source Software Helped End Ebola
How Open Source Software Helped End Ebola
West Africans generally associate free open source software, which is easily available to use and modify, as being inferior to commercial…
Salton Massally
Nov 17, 2017
Enabling Next Generation Digital Microfinance in Uganda
Enabling Next Generation Digital Microfinance in Uganda
iDT Labs Chief Technology Officer Salton Massally talks about his experience leading the integration of Advance Uganda to the country’s ATM…
Salton Massally
Nov 5, 2017
SMS is still King in low tech environments
SMS is still King in low tech environments
iDT Labs’ R&D Lead Usman Khaliq talks about the science and emotion behind iDT Labs’ SMS Firebolt, a gateway with well documented APIs in a…
Usman Khaliq
Nov 4, 2017
Why great teams (should) work hard & play hard
Why great teams (should) work hard & play hard
Mabel Turay from iDT Lab’s SME Solutions talks about the company’s end of the month “chill” tradition and how it contributes to team…
MABEL IRONN SKY TURAY
Oct 20, 2017
How Open Source helps me create positive impact
How Open Source helps me create positive impact
I had my first encounter with open source tech when I was completing the final year of my engineering degree at university. As part of the…
Nikhil Pawar
Oct 20, 2017
How might we enable fintechs to innovate for financial inclusion
How might we enable fintechs to innovate for financial inclusion
Leonard Francis Vibbi, Community Initiatives Coordinator at iDT Labs, talks about the role of West African fintechs in bridging the…
Leonard Francis Vibbi
Oct 16, 2017
Why Slack works better than email for teamwork
Why Slack works better than email for teamwork
Mahrukh Murtaza, Lead of Communications Design at iDT Labs, explores why the company let go of emails and adopted Slack as their team…
Mahrukh Murtaza
Oct 1, 2017
What It Takes To Launch A Nationwide Open Data Initiative
What It Takes To Launch A Nationwide Open Data Initiative
Salton Massally, Founder and CTO at IDT Labs, and Usman Khaliq, R&D Lead at iDT Labs, talk about their experience conducting an Open Data…
Usman Khaliq
Sep 30, 2017
How we Built an Android App that Brings Justice
How we Built an Android App that Brings Justice
Salton Massally, Co-Founder and CTO at iDT Labs, talks about his team’s journey in making an effective and user friendly Android Case…
Salton Massally
Sep 30, 2017
Digital reporting: A new frontier for newsrooms in Sierra Leone
Digital reporting: A new frontier for newsrooms in Sierra Leone
How iDT Labs incubated civic tech organization Code for Sierra Leone is working to help journalists catch-up with modern reporting…
Leonard Francis Vibbi
Sep 29, 2017
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