BarefootLawstarted in 2012 and now responds to over 30,000 legal questions each month. Ugandans can ask lawyers questions on SMS, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and email.

They are hoping to expand to more face-to-face services in places that aren't connected to the internet.

BarefootLaw was one of three winners of the King Baudouin African Development Prize, who all won the same prize money.

Another joint-winner, Farmerline, makes software for small-scale farmers across 10 countries to keep them informed on the market prices for their crops.

Freda Akoma Yeboah from Farmerline explains to Douglas Adjei how the Mergdata service works at Douglas' farm in Gyinase, Kumasi, Ghana

King Baudouin Foundation

And the third joint winner, Kytabu, developed an android app for students across East Africa to rent digital textbooks.

Tonee Ndung'u explains how the Kytabu App works to form one students in Dr Buconyori Free Methodist Boys School in Soy, Kenya, on 6th June 2017.

King Baudouin Foundation

The chair of the King Baudouin Foundation, Thomas Leysen, said the winners have "set a new precedent on how technology can change lives across Africa”.