Science & Tech

Uganda’s innovation sector is showing that world-class ideas can be built locally. A new generation of creators is developing practical solutions in a...

Baker Birikujja has been appointed director of Uganda’s new national Personal Data Protection Office (PDPO). The appointment follows the launch of the Beera ku...

Uganda must shift from being a consumer of foreign technologies to a creator of homegrown digital solutions if it is to secure sustainable growth in the...

The African Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences (ACE-Uganda) has announced a partnership with Google DeepMind to equip young...

Kaspersky has warned that artificial intelligence is accelerating phishing. In its latest report, the firm said it blocked over 142 million phishing link...

The National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) and South Africa's Rand Water have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at improving water...

The National Information Technology Authority – Uganda (NITA-U), in partnership with the Personal Data Protection Office (PDPO), launched the 'Beera Ku Guard'...

While the rest of the world has leaped forward through science; building cities, machines, and spacecraft; we often remain stuck in belief systems that were abandoned by others hundreds of years ago. We still treat illness as a curse, confuse scientific questions with blasphemy, and pass down fear instead of curiosity. This rejection of science has not protected us. It has left us watching other civilizations in awe, revering their advancements as if they were magic, while we fall further and further behind, not by decades, but by centuries.

SafeBangle Technologies, an innovation incubated at Makerere University, has won the prestigious World Summit Award (WSA) 2025 for its innovative contribution...

Thirty-two Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers have completed an intensive eight-week geospatial mapping training at the Uganda Rapid Deployment...