Uganda Innovation Week: Day 2 Summary
Laying the groundwork. The second day of the event was directed towards the contribution of women in the ecosystem and filling the gaps that exist. The first Keynote was about the NSSF Hi-Innovator Story as well as the story of Young Africa Works in Uganda. Adrian Bukenya the country director of Mastercard Foundation delivered a good keynote and talked about the role of women in innovation and the greater development of the economy. A good amount of time was spent sharing the stories of women entrepreneurs who have made some inroads in the creation of businesses. The next session was the introduction of the role of Entrepreneurial support organizations in the support of businesses to scale. This was delivered by Richard Zulu of Outbox Hub. Richard also manages the association’s work as well as the coordination of a host of programs that run with various industry players and policy leaders. His talk was about the technicalities of application to the varioys progr...