Our Focus

Awamu Inc will Encourage and Enhance Democratic Governance in sub-Saharan Africa via the application of technology.

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.” -- Joseph Stalin 1923 (from The Memoirs of Stalin’s Former Secretary by Boris Bazhanov)

Leaders in Pseudo-Democracies in Africa are not accountable to the people/population. In a predictable cycle, they keep the people in abject poverty and squander the resources sent in to help the vulnerable.

Our vision is to leverage the fast uptake of mobile telephony in the sub-Saharan Africa marketplace to enhance democratic participation of stakeholders and enhance the transparency of election outcomes.

Awamu Inc delivers verifiable, credible, independent, alternative-ballot-tabulation technology that is immediately available to the sub-Saharan voter, cost-effectively.

As the continent with the youngest population, sub Saharan Africa has as many opportunities as challenges when it comes to education and advocacy in the democracy and governance space. Our focus is on helping the vulnerable voice protect their electoral choices.

See them fighting for power. But they know not the hour (Bob Marley - Ambush in the Night).

Mobile App

Secure, fast and an intuitively simple interface. Available on both Android and IOS platforms

Backend App

Powerful database for the large datasets. Sophisticated reporting engine. Powered by Linux

Advocacy

Advocate for equity and inclusion of the voice of vulnerable people in the democratic process.

Education

Transparently advance participative solutions to protect choices of vulnerable people-groups in sub-Saharan Africa.

Our Services

These are some of the services that we offer.

Technology

Smartphones are a powerful tool that properly leveraged can amplify the vulerable voice across the continent.

Covid-19 Response

Sick voters cannot make a healty democracy. We use social media to engage with the vulnerable youth to disseminate ways to fight the pandemic.

Assistance

Support and Assist vulnerable groups onramp to the internet.

Education

We upskill our clients, working in partnership with other democracy and transparency projects.

Access to Research

We grant access to our research on models that have succeded and the best practices of those that want to emulate them.

Point of Contact

Become a point of contact and facilitator via our database to enable vulnerable populations to meet virutally and learn and exchange ideas.

Who We Are

Our Company

Awamu means, Together. Together generationally and together collectively. Awamu thus works to ensuring democratic governance is transparent though community effort.

Awamu Inc is a United States 501(c)3 registered charitable organization.

Awamu Inc was setup as a non-profit to galvanize transparent democratic governance in sub-Saharan Africa via the application of technology.

Awamu Inc will Advocate for equity and inclusion of the vulnerable voice in advancing their livelihoods. We shall pursue and transparently advance participative solutions to protect the choices of the vulnerable youth.

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Our Works

Transparent elections benefit the entire society from the young to the old, from women to men, and from the educated to the illiterate.
Awamu Inc, spreading the knowledge of the value of election transparency.

Guard the Elderly

Secure Retirement.

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Private Sector

Workng class.

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Public Sector

Government workers.

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Educated Women

Ambitious Professionals

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Protect Aspirations

Students. The future.

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Equip urban youth

Technology savy.

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Empowering Women

East Africa.

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Market Women

West Africa.

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Our Team

Awamu is a driven, focused and innovative organization.

Kiggundu Mukasa

Founder & CEO

Kiggundu is an entrepreneur who has over 20 years of experience as an IT Consultant..., Systems Administrator, Network Administrator and Infrastructure Manager working with Linux, OS X and Windows operating systems. He has lived, worked in and traveled to many sub-Saharan countries.

Our Board

Awamu's board of directors consists of a diverse group of leaders from a wide array of backgrounds, including Finance, Democracy and Governance, Political and Economic Analysis and Information Technology.

Mr. Steven Seelig

Board Chairman

Mr. Steven A. Seelig is a Principal and CEO of Financial Stability Associates, a consulting firm specialising in... the spectrum of financial stability issues. Prior to establishing Financial Stability Associates, Mr. Seelig served as Advisor in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund ('IMF'). Mr. Seelig spent the bulk of his professional career at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ('FDIC'), as the Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Seelig also worked as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as an Associate Professor of Economics at Fordham University. Mr. Seelig was a Board member of National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) from 2010 - 2013 and served as a member of the Supervisory Board of PrivatBank in Ukraine from 2017 - 2019. In that capacity he chaired the Risk Management Committee and was a member of the Audit Committee.

Mrs. Donna Bugby-Smith

Board Vice-Chairperson

Donna bring over 20 years of experience of working in the democratic/political governance... sector in East & West Africa, South East Asia and currently South Asia. She has now worked successfully with eight different legislative bodies and and brings a wealth of experience blending legislative strengthening insights with enhancing transparency and accountability by engaging directly with civil society. Donna has had assignments in a senior leadership roles including contracts with USAID, the European Union and UNDP

Mr. Marc Cassidy

Board Member

Marc is the managing director and owner at Adapt LLC (www.adapt-consult.com). Adapt is a small business that provides analytical... services such as applied political economy analysis and social network analysis. Marc has over twenty five years of international development experience with a specialization in democratic governance programming. He is also as a part-time senior fellow with USAID. He has served as director of governance at Pact.(www.pactworld.org) Before joining Pact, Marc served as a Senior Manager at the International Resources Group in Washington, DC. Other positions Marc has held included: Director of Governance and Rights at the International Rescue Committee; Chief of Party on USAID parliamentary strengthening projects in Bulgaria, Kenya and Uganda. Marc has also worked for DFID (Malawi, Uganda), UNDP (Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia), World Bank (Dominican Republic) Asia Foundation (Indonesia and East Timor), and USAID (Bulgaria Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique).

Mr. Paul Nantulya

Board Secretary

As a research associate at the Africa Center, Paul Nantulya researches and prepares written analysis on contemporary Africa... security issues. His areas of expertise include governance, mediation, peace processes, peacekeeping, and East Africa. Prior to joining the Africa Center, Mr. Nantulya served as a regional technical advisor on South Sudan for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) from 2009 to 2011, where he supported crisis mitigation for the Government of South Sudan including writing policy analyses for the Ministry of Peace and Comprehensive Peace Agreement Implementation.

Mr. Doug Pool

Board Member

Doug Pool is the founder and CEO of UpNET Solutions, a Washington DC based Info Tech Consultancy which provides... managed IT cloud services. Doug is also a Co-founder of 3rd Designs an innovative product design start-up with a focus on vehicular traffic and perimeter security. Before embarking on the current ventures, Doug spent 9 years as an IT Director for Subsystem Technologies and four years as an IT Manager at Children’s Defense Fund. He also worked as a Network Administrator at Alliance Management Systems. Doug enjoys coaching youth soccer and finding good real-estate deals.

Business Stats

As Awamu Inc is embarking on its odyssey as an emerging organisation, this section is UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
As we grow so will this section.

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Contact Us

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Our Address

Awamu Inc.
P.O.Box 4837
Rockville, MD 20849-4837