RAN's Efforts towards the Fight Against Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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Thank you, all dear partners and specifically innovators for continuously engaging with us to enable identification, development, and scaling of potentially transformative solutions to address community challenges both natural and human-made. On Tuesday, April 7, 2020, ResilientAfrica Network (RAN), a project in Makerere University College of Health Sciences School of Public Health successfully held a Webinar on Innovating for Emerging Pandemic Threats: the case of Coronavirus (COVID-19). |
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Expanding the Manufacturing of the next generation tent
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EpiTent Limited is a subsidiary of Makerere University charged with developing a Go-To-Market strategy for scaling the EpiTent. The team’s flagship product was the Humane Emergency Use Canopy and Accessories (HEUCA). This was a prize winning and ground-breaking tent originally designed for the Ebola Grand Challenge of 2015. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) partnered with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. |
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Business Unusual-a Story of the “Akatale” App Now listed as one of the COVID-19 Quarantine Service Providers
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The breaking sad news of the Corona Virus code-named COVID-19 pandemic has affected several businesses in Uganda and the world at large. But it has not been all bad news, there have been several lessons learned over the past couple of weeks and days. Many companies are now restructuring, re-strategizing, re-skilling and finding new modes of operation that will in the long run mold and shape them into being more efficient and effective.
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RAN Innovation Fireplace-Digital Series Episode 1
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In this fourth month of the year 2020, we are doing things a bit differently at the ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) and proving that we are indeed resilient and will jump over hurdles to inspire, educate and support the next generation of innovators and creative thinkers. As a result, our monthly innovation fireplace events will be hosted weekly via Zoom! To aid broad dissemination and to further generate and widely share knowledge, the sessions are recorded. |
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The RAN Innovation Fireplace-Digital Series Episode 2_April 27,2020
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The ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) Innovation Fireplace provides an opportunity for hopeful innovators and creative thinkers to interface with successful entrepreneurs, experienced doers and movers, high level speakers, managers of top brands, among others. The sessions are designed to inspire, educate and update participants on the latest trends in business, project operations, community needs and how these affect the growth and success of projects, businesses and ventures. Register
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Dr. Ticora recognized as one of 20 Black American National Security and Foreign Policy Next Generation Leaders
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Wekebere innovation emerges 1st in the 2020 Healthcare Design Competition at Johns Hopkins University
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The Wekebere innovation team, representing Makerere University was shortlisted in a call put out by The Johns Hopkins University in January 2020 seeking for health-related solutions from student-led teams from around the world to participate in the 2020 Healthcare Design Competition to the final stage where they competed with other 12 teams from around the world including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Rice University and others from the four corners of the world (all continents). |
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Appreciating the entire RAN Team for all support offered during Incubation
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The K-Pluz Media team would love to appreciate the entire RAN team, right from the Chief of Party down to the cleaner for such wonderful care and support offered to us as innovators or upcoming entrepreneurs during the three months incubation period. It was such a very great eye-opening experience for the K-Pluz Media Team.
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Engagement at Bishop Stuart University in Mbarara, Uganda
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On Thursday, March 12, 2020, during the Academic and Innovation Exhibition at Bishop Stuart University in Mbarara, Western Uganda, several students, and faculty exhibited a cross-section of potentially transformative innovative solutions. The Exhibition was guided by the theme: ‘Higher Education and the Private Sector: Preparing Human Resource Capital for the 4th Industrial Evolution’. All the solutions which were exhibited are being developed to address diverse community challenges both within and outside the University. |
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RAN 4th Innovation Fireplace
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The evening of Friday, February 28th, 2020 saw the RAN team partner with Makerere Engineering Society (MES) to hold our 4th Innovation Fireplace at Makerere University College of Engineering Design Art and Technology (CEDAT) Conference Hall. This event was the first of its kind to be held at the Makerere University-Main Campus. It was exciting to note that the engagement brought together 150 participants among whom were students from all academic years of study, faculty, colleges, non-academic University staff, and even non-University based citizens. |
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Human Centered Design Training for Cohort 1 at Makerere University
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Wednesday, February 26 and Thursday, February 27, 2020, saw part of the ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) team offer the Human-Centered Training to a group of 48 multidisciplinary students, male and female at Makerere University. These students engaged in hands-on activities as the trainers emphasized areas of Need Finding, Problem Framing, Structured Brainstorming, Rapid Prototyping, and Pitching.
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RAN's Deputy Chief of Party at KTA's Second Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Technology
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Following its recent award as the “African Intellectual Property (IP) Team of the Year” at the African Legal Awards this September, KTA advocates with partners demonstrated their commitment to supporting homegrown innovation and ingenuity by hosting the Second “Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property, Technology and Innovation”. The symposium, which took place at Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort on the 24th and 25th October, 2019 brought together members of the legal fraternity, policy makers, academia and global and local entrepreneurs to engage in a riveting discussion on the internet of things.
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Are business incubators doing enough to support Uganda’s entrepreneurs?
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Majority of Uganda’s adult population is engaged in entrepreneurial activity, so much so, that the country was recently ranked one of the most entrepreneurial countries in the world. It has also been noted however that only a few of the businesses that are created are surviving and even fewer are thriving. ‘Does Uganda’s entrepreneurial ecosystem work?’ Does it adequately support entrepreneurs? The Makerere University Business School (MUBS) held its 14th Annual Entrepreneurship Conference on the 14th and 15th of November to address these challenging questions.
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The RAN 3rd Innovation Fireplace
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On Friday August 9th 2019 we hosted the RAN Innovation Fireplace under the theme “Placing the spotlight on the User through Customer centric models”.
The Innovation Fireplace event has been designed to provide a platform to engage the ecosystem of innovators and entrepreneurs so as learn and discuss critical topics that are pertinent to their ventures.
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