In Uganda today, approximately 24 patents only have been registered by the Uganda Registration Services Bureau. An assessment conducted by Quinn and Cameron, (2013) on Innovation in Uganda found that Ugandan innovators are generating an abundance of idea ...
Rampant Road Accidents: Innovation can contribute to the solution
On January 18, 2020, Nicole Blessing Ahumuza got onto the road like any other regular passenger. In her 16 years alive, she’d exhibited leadership skills, she had friends, she cared for people with empathy and compassion. But on that day, a tragic acciden ...
The year 2021 through the lens of Future Lab
Future Lab, a department at The Innovation Village, is building the largest corporation innovation platform in East Africa. Future Lab identifies innovation as a key driver for growth to solve several socio-economic challenges by leveraging innovation an ...
Global acquisitions: The art of it all and how startups can position to benefit
In 2020 Beyonic, a home-grown Ugandan startup providing digital payments solutions in five countries was acquired by MFS Africa, the largest digital payments hub in Africa. In a young entrepreneurial ecosystem like Uganda where many startups are fast stra ...
Building Climate-Ready Communities: Why Science, Technology & Innovation matters to us all
For the last 10 days, over 20,000 delegates from 200 countries have been at the Glasgow Climate Conference discussing ways to keep climate change under control. This global discourse around climate change points towards one fact; we are in a climate emerg ...
Design hackathon empowers young innovators
Zephaniah Maxwell Anyuru is a 24-year-old Graphics designer who spent last week participating in a design hackathon organized by Garage48 in collaboration with The Innovation Village and with support from the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Developme ...
Innovation can enable equal participation in tourism sector
For decades, tourism businesses have been a preserve of foreign investors and Uganda’s wealthy upper class. Why? From accommodation services to transport services, the high costs of starting a business while investing in infrastructure and attractions hav ...
Embrace Design Thinking to solve your innovation problems
“Design is at the centre of everything that we do whether we think about it or not,” says Eugene Kavuma, an enthusiast of Design and Founder of Kampala Design Week (KDW) says. In an examination of the most successful products on the market, globally o ...
Youth Innovation is key to transforming our food systems
In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly declared August 12, as the International Youth Day to celebrate the involvement and contributions of the young people to the national development agenda, while drawing attention to the day-to-day challenges the ...
Health Innovation is key to eradicating the Covid-19 crisis
In his speech to the nation on July 30, 2021, President Yoweri Museveni partially reopened most parts of the economy after 42-days of the lockdown. This was after the percentage of people testing positive for COVID-19 drastically dropped from 21 per cent ...