Technology

Parliament Set For Technology and innovation Exhibition By Adiga Julius Parliament through its committee on science, technology and innovation, has organized a sector, technology and innovation exhibition (STI) from 10th-14th December 2018, at parliament ground. Addressing media briefing at parliament, Members of the committee said that the objective of the exhibition is to empower and support Uganda’s innovators, identify innovations that require government innervation’s and funding as well as enhancing socio-economic transformation of the country…

By, Damba Rogers. Farmers in Uganda have a reason to smile as Afro-soft-Uganda have finally tested and proved the works of the new livestock and poultry truck App dubbed, Jaguza livestock. Jaguza livestock is a gadget placed in the ear of a cow, pig, goat and helps the farmer detect likely disease, movements, feeding, mating, sell value of the animal among other usage and linked to the radar which generates and compiles information. Kasozi Lameck,…

By Parliament press Members have tasked the Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) to fast track public sensitization on the electronic system of loading airtime if they are to phase out airtime scratch cards. MPs expressed concern that UCC did not prepare Ugandans to embrace the electronic recharge system and demanded that the Commission expedites sensitization of the public on the advantage that the e-system has over scratch cards. “The e-system is the right direction to take…

By Parliament Press The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has expressed concern about local media content, which she says is key in promoting the progress of the media industry in Uganda. She also observed that the Independent Media Council under the Ministry of Information and National Guidance was not operational and therefore not helping the situation. The Speaker was meeting members of Parliamentary Forum on Media on Wednesday, 01 August 2018. The Chairperson of the…

By Parliament Press Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has accepted an offer to meet telecom companies and Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) over the controversial move to ban airtime scratch cards. The acceptance ended a nearly two-hour standoff in the House, after MPs had disagreed with the ICT Minister Frank Tumwebaze over the proposal. “We shall have the meeting with telecom companies so that we get what we can explain to our constituents; I think we both need…

Cassava Farmers in Northern Uganda Ripe Big in New Technology By Damba Rogers. Farmers engaged in cassava value addition in Lango region are smiling home after an upgrade from open air processing to use of high precision indoor modern cassava flash dryers, a technology that offers the best answer to weather challenges especially during wet seasons when cassava processing comes under burdens of rains, thus affecting the quality of the end product as it takes…

IN SIDE THE NEW SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS ON THE SAFETY OF GMO PRODUCTS IN UGANDA AND THE UNRESOLVED ISSUES ON THE CONTROVERSIAL GMO BILL!  By Sibasi Timothy New scientific finding into the controversial botched accent of a GMO Bill into law by president Museveni indicates that there’s no hazardous effects of GMO agricultural products to human life nor to the soil fertility in Uganda. The revelation made by  the national coordinator of Open Forum on Agriculture…

By Acaye Henry. Structured peace will ensure sustainability Museveni, Karume launch mobile App, website on Global peace President Yoweri Museveni and former Zanzibar President H.E Dr. Abeid Amani Karume have today launched the Global Peace Leadership conference mobile App and website that will enable over 50 million people from all over the world to scan the QR code and access conference topics. I heard about Rev. Moon but I never met him. I have heard…