innovation
The Health Innovation Conference is coming: Here is all you need to know
Health innovation is the process of developing new and or improved health policies, systems, products, technologies, services and delivery methods that are aimed at improving people's health, with a special focus on the needs of vulnerable populations. The Ugandan Academy for Health Innovation and Impact... Read More
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Did we just pass “Tweeting” and “Facebooking” as Innovation?
Starting my week with a rant is usually kind of unorthodox. But when I read headlines that glorify the act of Facebooking and Tweeting as innovation, then that just disorients every fiber in me. To give a little bit of background to this whole misappropriated... Read More
DEMO Africa launches continental innovation tour
Startup launchpad event DEMO Africa has announced an innovation tour of numerous capitals across Africa, allowing the DEMO team to meet tech startups from 16 countries to get them ready for the event in September. The tour will start in Eastern and Southern Africa, moving... Read More
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Why we don’t have hardware startups in Africa
The world is fast changing. The average urban sixteen year old in Africa particularly Uganda has either used or owned a mobile phone, a radio, a music player, a laptop, or subwoofers. There is likely a chance that one owns most or all of these. That is... Read More
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SchoolMaster School management App: myChild wants to transform parent-school relationships
This post follows my previous post on Why tablets could potentially change education in Africa that was widely shared. So I've decided to write more on EdTech or Education Technology which is a place where Technology meets the classroom. This is yet another product review because... Read More
Makerere’s Kiira EV: What the business community can learn from Uganda’s first electric car
On a bright Tuesday, 1st November 2011 afternoon, something monumental and historic happened as Ugandans witnessed the Kiira EV, a flashy green vehicle made its first test runs around Makerere university campus roads. If you missed the story, you can catch up on the university... Read More
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