SMEs Urged to Build for Sustainability Through Innovation
Uganda’s business landscape is dominated by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), which play a crucial role in the country’s economic growth and GDP. Despite their significance, many SMEs struggle to survive past their first or second year due to challenges such as limited financial resources, inadequate infrastructure, and insufficient access to broader markets. Today, Daily […]
How Ronald Kiyimba rose from being a Charcoal Seller to an aspiring Industrialist
Ronald Kiyimba honed his business acumen at the age of 12 while trading in charcoal to finance his school needs in his home district of Mukono in central Uganda. Almost 12 years later, he’s now a fully-fledged businessman and runs Harbby Products Services- Uganda, a business specializing in the industrial formulation and processing of mosquito […]
Zaake’s AgriShare App: Farmers’ digital bridge to solar irrigation
AgriShare App empowers farmers’ access to affordable irrigation equipment Paul Zaake, a 34- year-old innovator runs AgriShare, an innovative application-based platform that connects farmers to a vast database of agricultural machinery, equipment, and resources in their select locations to help them have more options for hiring and purchase. Farmers can hire irrigation and processing equipment, land, […]
Legal Innovation: The African Perspective
The “Golden Year” for legal tech, is what many described 2023 to be, and the African continent was no exception. While the legal tech Community in Africa is in its early stage, it experienced a boost as legal tech became the talk in many boardrooms and much traction was gained across different platforms. The […]
Waape: Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence for job search and hire
A team of 12 young innovators at Innovation Village are re-inventing the wheel in job search and hiring using their artificial intelligence solution – ‘Waape’. The innovative platform with an App and website helps employers find the most suitable employee as quickly as possible through matching the right candidate with the right job. The innovators […]
Mastercard: Driving Digital and Financial Inclusion in the Agriculture Sector
Last week, Mastercard held its second annual Community Pass Summit at Lake Victoria Serena Hotel – Kigo marking a significant milestone in its ongoing efforts to promote digital and financial inclusion in Uganda and beyond. The Summit convened diverse groups of experts from both the public and private sector, innovators and financial institutions with […]
Breaking Barriers to High Impact Innovation in Uganda
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 ideas, but of those ideas, few “reach a stage of full implementation, or demonstrate scalability and self-sustainability”. Innovation […]
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 accident ended almost two decades of her life. Ahumuza is just one […]
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 and design thinking principles to support organizations’ growth, especially in times of rapid change. At the helm of this is to identify and […]
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 strapped for cash, and where the failure rate is high, an acquisition of a business like Beyonic which was founded in 2013 and dominated well on the East African market raises questions on what such an acquisition means. Did the acquisition […]
