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Bill Gates Bestowed with Africa’s Financial Inclusion Medal Of Honor – at #DIAA2019 #IncludeEveryone

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Bill Gates Bestowed with Africa’s Financial Inclusion Medal Of Honor – at #DIAA2019 #IncludeEveryone

HiPipo, through its Include Everyone program is delighted to celebrate global business leader Bill Gates with a Digital Impact Awards Africa honor, the ‘Africa’s Financial Inclusion Medal of Honor.’

“The Africa Financial Inclusion Medal of Honor is awarded to an individual or organization that has made exceptional contribution to Africa’s Digital space, by specifically taking lead in ensuring that there is provision of affordable, reliable and accessible financial services across the continent.” noted Innocent Kawooya, CEO, HiPipo.

According to GSMA 2018 report, mobile money is now available in 100 countries through over 300 services globally. The number of verified mobile money accounts is reaching a total of half a billion globally with strong growth in Sub-Saharan Africa.


This fast-growing mobile money penetration that has greatly improved financial inclusion to the poorest of the poor is thanks to the tremendous work done by development partners that have invested time and money in research and delivery of sustainable financial solutions for the poor. Notable among such partners is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The different researches and productions/live projects that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting are mammoth contributions that demonstrate how different industries can innovate and positively transform life using mobile financial services.

It is against this background that Digital Impact Awards Africa appreciates this noble contribution and thus presents the “Africa’s Financial Inclusion Medal of Honor, 2019” to Bill Gates, the Co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Medal of Honor was accompanied with a Special Fiber Mosaic Art Piece
It is an original and unique piece with a patterned surface consisting of various simple patterns of quite collaborated color effects made with small pieces of banana fibre, plywood and glue.
Godfrey Kabaale Phipo crafted the best ever most durable, greatest looking, most admirable medal to celebrate Bill Gates. In his own words,


“This art piece is a patterned surface made with small pieces of banana fibre, stuck on plywood with art glue. This art piece took me 6,570 man hours to finish. It required a detailed and customized attention for any slight distraction would make me lose truck. This art piece will forever be a very special art piece to me because it has made me discover the potential I never imagined I had.”

The Digital Impact Awards Africa honor and special mosaic art piece was received by Dr. Warren D. Carew, Vice President – Payment at ModusBox on behalf of the Gate Foundation at the recently concluded 6th edition of Include Everyone Summit and #DIAA2019.

Since their inception, the Digital Impact Awards Africa (DIAA) have enjoyed increasing international recognition. Today they are among the most respected and sought-after prizes bestowed.

Their prestige, acknowledged within Africa and rest of the world, has grown over the years because the public and digital industry recognizes the DIAA as an award based on technical achievement and because care has been taken to preserve the integrity of the DIAA. Specifically, the Digital Impact Awards Africa has carefully limited reproductions of the DIAA statuettes.

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Innocent Kawooya, NIM, is an award-winning Ugandan entrepreneur, media innovator, digital transformation leader, and the Chief Executive Officer of HiPipo. He is widely recognised for his contribution to digital innovation, financial inclusion, youth empowerment, healthcare, education, media, and technology-driven social transformation across Africa. He is a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Diamond Jubilee Medal awarded by His Excellency, the President of Uganda, in recognition of his contribution to national development, digital innovation, and financial inclusion. He is also recognised as the first Ugandan under the age of forty to receive a National Independence Medal from the President of Uganda for his outstanding contribution to digital innovation, financial inclusion, youth empowerment, and national development. Innocent Kawooya has further been recognised as FinTech CEO of the Year (Middle East & Africa) for 2024 and 2025, while HiPipo has received multiple continental recognitions, including Most Innovative Financial Inclusion Organisation in the Middle East & Africa. From his school days, Innocent Kawooya served as Head Prefect, Head Boy, Chairman of Writers and Debating Clubs, where he developed a deep passion for storytelling, journalism, public speaking, and influence. Since then, he has written and contributed to hundreds of thousands of articles, stories, opinion pieces, digital campaigns, and media publications focused on technology, finance, entrepreneurship, innovation, healthcare, entertainment, and social transformation across Africa. He is widely recognised as one of the pioneers of Africa’s digital media and social networking space, having co-led the development of HiPipo.com, probably Africa’s earliest social networking platform. Through the platform, he helped shape digital conversations and online communities across the continent at a time when social media adoption in Africa was still in its infancy. Over the last two decades, Innocent has championed major initiatives in digital financial services, healthcare innovation, renewable energy, youth empowerment, media, and creative industries. His work through initiatives such as Digital Impact Awards Africa (DIAA), Include Everyone, Women in FinTech, My Doctor, Solar M7, and HiPipo University continues to influence and empower millions of people across Africa and beyond.
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