#40Forward: Codesync Team Lead wins MTN Women Award

As we draw closer to the start of the Women Passion (WOPA) program under the #40Forward initiative, we continue to bring to you stories of Women who have made success in the field of Technology and Entrepreneurship.

Last week, MTN business in partnership with Forbes woman organised an awards event to recognise Women making a difference and challenging stereotypes and Christine Ampaire won the MTN business Award.

Christine attributes her success to her team members whom she has worked with ever since their first product MafutaGo was launched.
MafutaGo is a smartphone application which helps motorists hunt for the best deal on fuel by showing users the price at different petrol stations.

Christine is the Team Lead at Codesync, one of Outbox's resident start-up companies in Kampala whose main focus is making applications that are locally relevant and solve the day to day solutions of the African man. It birthed MafutaGo and MyZiki, a music platform on which exclusive African music can be bought by users and sold by musicians.

She is also a co-founder of the Girl-geek kampala initiative, an independent initiative to celebrate and promote women and girls in science and technology in Uganda with it’s home at Outbox.

Under the #40Forward initiative, Christine is one of the organisers of the Women Passion program that has been launched by Outbox. This program is geared towards increasing the number of women in Entrepreneurship and Technology by 25% and is sponsored by Google for Entrepreneurs.

Registration is still on-going until 29th March 2014.