Digital Economy
Program

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. 

Program Overview

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

Digital Rails

Leverage shared digital infrastructure to reduce the complexity of serving the hard-to-reach​

Partnership Program​

Tap into a network of partners to collaboratively get to more hard-to-reach communities faster​

Digital Skilling​

Access stellar technical talent, and communities empowered to leverage digital solutions​

Agent Network​

Utilize a shared agent network to get closer to digitally excluded communities faster and more efficiently​

Program in Numbers

10

Digital entrepreneurs access digital infrastructure to scale across agriculture, education and SMEs sectors

10

MSMEs to adopt ICT tools and applications

10

Early career opportunities in technical fields

10

Youth, women, smallholder farmers,  small business owners and others in unerved and underserved communities

10

Young people (60% women) in dignified and fulfilling work opportunities

10

Local business strengthened, made more resilient and efficient

Partner with Us

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:

Build solutions with the Digital Rails

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

Step 1
Apply
Fill out a complete application​
Step 1
Step 2
Complete initial conversation​
Where you meet the minimum criteria, we will reach out to have a brief initial conversation to better understand your needs​
Step 2
Step 3
Internal Review​
We will then complete an internal review process to identify where and how the Program can best meet your needs​
Step 3
Step 4
Detailed conversation​
We will reach out to have a more detailed conversation to understand your solution, its progress and challenges, and to unpack how the program could potentially support your journey​
Step 4
Step 5
Application decision​
Where a good fit, your application will be accepted​
Step 5
Step 6
Onboarding​
You will be invited to complete the onboarding steps to access the Developer Sandbox, testing kit (devices, cards, etc), solutioning support and more​
Step 6

Partner with us today

Use Solutions Built By Program Partners​

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

Step 1
Explore solutions
Explore the range of solutions built by the Program Partners​
Step 1
Step 2
Express Interest​
Express interest in one or more solutions, or let us know your general needs​
Step 2
Step 3
Initial Conversation​
We will then complete a brief initial conversation to better understand your needs​
Step 3
Step 4
Introduction​
We will then introduce you to the appropriate partners​
Step 4
Step 5
Solutioning
We will work with you and the partner(s) you select to integrate their solution into yours, providing additional support to improve the product fit ​
Step 5
Step 6
Deploy
We will support you and the Partner(s) to deploy and scale the solution​
Step 6

Partner with us today

Contact Us

Saul Wekama
Practice Lead – Digital Economy

Arthur Mukembo​
Future Lab Studio Lead​

Sharon Kakai​
Program Communications​

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