Innovation Village partnered with Mastercard Foundation to provide a blend of digital infrastructure, tools, skilling, and channels to support those innovating to bring opportunities in the burgeoning Digital Economy closer to young people, women, smallholder farmers, small businesses, among others, across hard-to-reach communities all over Uganda, unlocking opportunities that improve lives and livelihoods.
The Digital Economy Program uses technology and partnerships to unlock opportunities for those in hard-to-reach communities
The Program provides a blend of digital infrastructure, tools, skilling, and channels to support those innovating to bring opportunities in the Digital Economy closer to young people, women, smallholder farmers, small businesses and others in hard-to-reach communities across Uganda
Leverage shared digital infrastructure to reduce the complexity of serving the hard-to-reach
Tap into a network of partners to collaboratively get to more hard-to-reach communities faster
Access stellar technical talent, and communities empowered to leverage digital solutions
Utilize a shared agent network to get closer to digitally excluded communities faster and more efficiently
Digital entrepreneurs access digital infrastructure to scale across agriculture, education and SMEs sectors
MSMEs to adopt ICT tools and applications
Early career opportunities in technical fields
Youth, women, smallholder farmers, small business owners and others in unerved and underserved communities
Young people (60% women) in dignified and fulfilling work opportunities
Local business strengthened, made more resilient and efficient
Using pre-built and highly customizable shared digital infrastructure and various partnerships, the Digital Economy Partner Program supports those building and scaling technology-enabled solutions for hard-to-reach communities in Agriculture, Education, or in support of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise resilience, and so on, to do so more efficiently, sustainably and at scale, faster.
There are currently two pathways to partner with the Program:
Use the Digital Rails, our support and other Program components to refine and scale your solution serving hard-to-reach communities. Partner with us to:
We support our partners to build, test, refine and scale high-impact sustainable solutions serving the hard-to-reach. Our partners get access to:
Technology Deployment
Market Development
Partners looking to Build Solutions With the Digital Rails typically:
Our partners go through a simple process to join the Program
Use the various solutions built by the Program Partners to better and more sustainably serve hard-to-reach communities at scale
Partners looking to Use Solutions Built By Program Partners typically:
Our partners go through a simple process to join the Program
Saul Wekama
Practice Lead – Digital Economy
Arthur Mukembo
Future Lab Studio Lead
Sharon Kakai
Program Communications
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