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K Intelligent Technologies (ESolutionsUG)
K Intelligent Technologies is a Ugandan Information technology company that is built around Technology, market, logistics service and payment service. The Information Technology service enables the development of sustainable online products for the customers through a network of local and International partners while the payment services facilitate the payments of online transactions within the K Intelligent Technologies' ecosystem. It has partnered with more than 1,200 active sellers and individuals.

Location
The headquarters of K Intelligent Technologies are located in Mutundwe, along Mutundwe Road, in the Central Division of Kampala, the county's capital and largest city. The coordinates of the headquarters are 0°19'14.0"N, 32°35'18.0"E (Latitude:0.28030841749358104; Longitude:32.540673625513534).

History
In 2015, Kiberu Edwin Ronald founded K Intelligent Technologies formally Known as ESolutionsUG before it rebranded to K Intelligent Technologies in 2019 when he was a students at Makerere University in Uganda.

Since Kiberu saw an opportunity in the growth of internet in Uganda, he decided to do an internet based company to serve better his clients and reduce on the high costs of aquiring internet based services in Uganda. While the internet penetration increased in Uganda, Kiberu Decided to develop a multi service app to allow people transact business this App was called ESolutionsUG App with support from his friend Gerald Kibirige they developed this app to help the community from which they came from(Mutundwe). And in 2020 with the surge of COVID19 in Uganda Kiberu through his company K Intelligent Technologies decided to help NGO's to better serve their community members during the lockdown by developing for them Mobile Apps to access SRHR services, information and also to create a safe space for people mostly those living with HIV in Uganda.

K Intelligent Technologies was officially launched in Uganda in 2019 in the suburbs of Mutundwe and expanded to other regions in Uganda : Ntinda, Kyambogo, Jinja and many other regions. In Uganda, K Intelligent Technologies has been trying to categorize itself as one of the leading IT and e-commerce websites.

In June 2019, K Intelligent Technologies launched Delivery Yo, a food delivery platform, and Ticket Yo, a Ticketing platform. K Intelligent Technologies url shortener was launched in April 2021. The same year, K Intelligent Technologies officially launched the ESolutionsUG App, an app that allows service providers to list their services and find clients online. The company leads the development of the different Mobile applications in Uganda used by different NGOs like the Youth and adolescents health App developed in 2020 by Anthill foundation.

COVID-19 accelerated the growth of e-commerce and digital entrepreneurship in Africa and more women have embraced digital business. On the Delivery Yo platform by K Intelligent Technologies, over a third of businesses in Uganda are owned by women according to IFC. Like any other global e-commerce platform in Uganda, K Intelligent Technologies put more emphasis on community-based trading to allow people grow and support their communities.

In 2021 with the introduction of the 12% tax K Intelligent Technologies saw a rapid drop in its service usage since very many people had reduced on their internet consumption hence driving sales down.

Overview
Statistics show that there is an increase in internet usage in Uganda by 13.92 million users of internet and a percentage of 29.1 by January 2022 compared to the previous years. With the rise in internet usage very many people have found innovative ways of reaching their clients in different ways. And with a total of 3.40 million users using social media in Uganda with an increase of 900,000 users in the year 2020 - 2021. This increase is approximately 7.3% of the total population of Uganda which means that there is a need to develop more innovative ways to reach the remaining 92.7% people who are not on social media. Very many interventions are being made to reach the remaining 92.7% through USSD and SMS for those people who have no access to internet. Since 42% of Ugandans are connected to internet there is a need to find innovative ways on how we can reach the remaining 58% of the population who have no internet access.

Websites
K Intelligent Technologies website, esolutionsug.com, is ranked number 1,503 in global internet engagement and the thirteenth most visited website in Uganda in late April 2020, according to Alexa.com - a global internet traffic ranking firm. It is the sixth most-visited local website in Nigeria, as of April 2020, following a recent listing by IABC Africa Media.