Barbara Birungi Mutabazi

Biography

Barbara is a groundbreaking Ugandan social entrepreneur, technologist, consultant, mentor, International speaker and IT project manager.
Barbara is the Founder and Managing Director of Women In Technology Uganda, an organization that is empowering women and girls from underserved communities to live sustainable and fulfilling lives through use of technology education, business skilling and linking them to work opportunities. WITU is also championing getting young unemployed women into tech work through skilling, reskilling, upskilling and directly connecting them to work opportunities. Prior to founding WITU, Barbara co-founded Hive Colab, Uganda’s first innovation hub, business accelerator and incubator for East African technology startups and whose mission is to build local tech and business capacity and scale up ideas with positive social and economic returns. Prior to this, Barbara was Country Manager and lead project manager for digital projects at Appfrica Labs, a software development consultancy connecting the world to African Developers. Barbara has a MSC. in Information systems management from the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, a bachelor's degree in Business computing from Makerere University Business School and a post graduate diploma in project planning and management from Uganda Management Institute.