About Gerald Businge

Gerald Businge is multi award winning Multimedia Journalist, communications specialist, entrepreneur and ICTs specialist in Uganda. He is the Team Leader at Ultimate Multimedia Consult and Yaaka Digital Network -a platform and set of tools for digitalizing teaching and learning online and offline. He facilitates the learning of Multimedia Journalism and Digital Communications at Makerere University’s Department of Journalism and Communication and other organizations partnering with UMC.

An alumnus of Makerere University and University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Businge is certified trainer of UMC, DW Akademie, Internews Europe, the Hague Academy and the Word Bank. He is one the three African representatives on the Digital Development Network, a consortium of academics coordinated by Sheffield University to study the role of technologies in Development.

He is a Rotarian, Board member of the Association of Catholic Communication Practitioners and is a member of Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom Parliament (Rukurato) representing the Kagadi diaspora.