Eng. Denis Ogwang is a Ugandan engineer, innovator, and Founder and Executive Director of WaterKit. Inspired by watching friends suffer from preventable water-borne diseases while growing up in rural Uganda, he built WaterKit — a mobile app that gathers real-time, community-generated data to record and monitor the daily functioning, hygiene, and reliability of local water resources such as pumps and boreholes. WaterKit is currently monitoring 1,227 water points in Northern Uganda, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, identified 47 broken boreholes and water pumps, of which 60 per cent were fixed as a direct result of WaterKit’s monitoring and reporting system. He was also a 2019 ITU Young ICT Leader Forum participant.

Today, Denis leads the team at WaterKit Institute, a Non-profit organisation at the center of providing rural water and sanitation services in Uganda.

Email : denis@waterkitinstitute.org