Women have been urged to embrace information and technologies, ICT base business initiatives as potential goldmines for the empowerment of women in the business.
The remarks were made on Wednesday at the third URA women conference 2020 at Hotel Africana under the theme “celebrating 25 years of constitutionalism course in gender equality and women empowerment.
The commissioner gender and women affairs in the ministry of gender, labour and social development, Angella Nakasero called upon women to embrace information and communication technologies through electronic platforms, networks and internet.
She said this will help women entrepreneurs to get close to their customers and build their business better than before.
“We can do a lot of things doing ICT, we can communicate, we can order services, we can also reduce the cost of running businesses when we utilize ICT,” she said.
The Uganda Revenue commissioner general Doris Akol measured the bottle necks to women success as cultural, competition against each other, male dominated carriers among others.
She said the commission is helping women in business to embrace ICT through capacity building.
“We are building capacity of women in trade to embrace online solution of trading because the formal physical methods are limiting and time consuming,” she said.
Nalubwama Irene commonly known as Mama Lususu told Ug Mirror some of the challenges she met as a business women before registering with Uganda Revenue Authority.
“I could move door to door but I couldn’t make it well because I could fear URA but when they came to me, I got to understand everything and decided to work with them and now I get people where I am located,” she said.