Barbara Mutabazi

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT BARBARA MUTABAZI

Barbara is a ground-breaking innovator dedicated to promoting the economic empowerment of youth especially girls and women by encouraging greater youth participation in Uganda’s technology sector, and actively contributing to the budding IT innovation and entrepreneurship sector of the country. She is a Co-Founder and Director of Hive Colab, Uganda\'s Premier business accelerator and incubator for East African startups, and founder of WITU (Women in Technology Uganda), which encourages, inspires, and trains women in technology, leadership, and entrepreneurship. Barbara has over 12 years of expertise in business development advisory for early and growth-stage businesses, strategic planning, project management, and implementation. Expertise in managing and establishing relationships among entrepreneurs, incubators, development partners, venture capitalists, and angel funders from Uganda and abroad. Technology and gender diversity advisory across the globe. Barbara is a trained and experienced project manager and has delivered technology projects for UNICEF, UNCDF, US Embassy in Uganda, CBI, ITC and Uganda Telecom. She is a 2014 Anita Borg Institute Change agent winner. An award given to non-Us-women impacting the lives of girls and women around the world through STEM. She is also a 2017 Young African Leaders Initiative ( YALI) Mandela Washington Fellow. An African visionary fellow in its inaugural cohort of 2017 Barbara is an experienced international speaker, who has had speaking experience at various events including the UN ECOSOC youth forum multiple times, UNESCO youth forum on science and technology multiple times, Motorola- UNDP mobile development stakeholder forum, GHC conference for women in Technology, Legatum Foundation, among others. Currently pursuing a STEM qualifying MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She holds a Master\'s Degree in Information Systems from the University of Salford Manchester, UK, a post-graduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management from Uganda Management Institute, and a Bachelor\'s degree in Business Computing from Makerere University Kampala, Uganda. Barbara lives with her husband and 4 children.