During this year “2012” Uganda is to celebrate its golden jubilee (50 yrs) of independence. It therefore presents an opportune time for Ugandan innovators among other Ugandans in general, to bring their potentials, abilities and talents to the lime light through various events such as exhibitions and contest expos.  Read More →

The lady (based in Luwero District) operating the LOG`EL SOLAR solution. Apart from providing an alternative energy source, she generates continuous revenue hence, realizing her entrepreneurial dream In a typical Ugandan setting, women play the roles of digging, fetching water, doing household work, cooking, hosting visitors and, above all, bearing children i.e. they are movers of the “caring... 

INTRODUCTION The article seeks to underscore the dismal performance of agriculture in Uganda despite the sector having the critical potential to leverage and power the development process of the country today.  This notion is backed by the fact that during the 1950s up to the early 1970s, Uganda’s socio-economic landscape was a shining model of development within East Africa particular and Africa... 

The Youth Science, Technology and Innovation Contest was a 2 day activity which was organized and held by LOG`EL Project in conjunction with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST), Research in Africa and African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS), with the principal aim of improving the scientific, technological... 

  The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) have joined forces in celebrating NEPAD’s 10th Anniversary. The two institutions are jointly organising within this framework two competitions: An essay competition on the theme “Looking at ICTs and entrepreneurship in agriculture and rural development... 

The tendency of Ugandan universities to split courses has eroded our intellectual output, thus putting our economy at stake. Several course units have been expanded into courses, thus every year, a chunk of graduates are out on streets without employment. I do not think there is much sense in splitting a course. For example, teaching procurement as a full course at a time when Bcom( Bachelor of... 

Source: SCIEDEV Developing countries will benefit from creating more opportunities that allow women to make full use of their scientific capabilities. One reason frequently cited for the low level of scientific activity in the developing world is a lack of resources. Yet there is a readily available resource that, for a complex web of social and cultural reasons, is still too often neglected in... 

Source: SCIEDEV To make an impact, science and technology must embrace Africa’s informal system of making and trading, argues Steve Daniels. For half a century, science and technology (S&T) have promised to bring prosperity to Sub-Saharan Africa, but little progress has been made. This is in part because the African way of making and trading is largely informal, and Western industrialisation... 

Source: SCIEDEV ‘Hard’ data are rare in Africa, and journalists mostly have to make do with rough estimates and half-empty spreadsheets. So we should pore over fresh new data sets when they appear, shouldn’t we? It seems not. Last month, the African Union finally launched the first African Innovation Outlook — a survey of African research, development and innovation activity....