The minister of Energy and Mineral Development, hosted by the Science, Technology and Innovation minister Hon. Dr. Monica Musenero inspect innovation
ABOUT DEEP-TECH, THE LOCAL CONTEXT
Deep-tech innovations are defined as disruptive solutions built around unique, protected or hard-to-reproduce technological or scientific advances.
These innovations have the potential to advance technological frontiers. Deep technology encompasses areas of fundamental sciences, robotics, and biotechnology, as well as frontier industries like artificial intelligence and the internet of things.
Uganda currently imports electronic and electrical equipment worth over $400 million annually
Uganda’s technological landscape is currently dominated by digital technologies such as mobile apps, fintech solutions, and e-commerce platforms, while the deep technology sector remains largely underdeveloped.
Additionally, Uganda currently imports electronic and electrical equipment worth over $400 million annually, highlighting a significant gap in local manufacturing capacity, with our electronics market primarily dominated by a supply chain reliant on Chinese manufactured hardware and local retailers.
The Government of Uganda has established a Local Electronics Hardware Manufacturing facility with a manufacturing capacity of 100,000 per year as an enabler for the deep tech ecosystem. This facility has a state-of the-art fabrication laboratory (Fablab) and a contract manufacturing facility, to boost local production capability of electronics hardware. Some locally manufactured products in the facility include: hairdryers, calculators, drones etc.
