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
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
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:
- Develop high-impact sustainable solutions for hard-to-reach communities
- Reduce cost to acquire and serve these communities
- Reach more of these communities faster
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
- Access a Developer Sandbox environment to ease integration and prototyping of solutions
- De-risk prototyping through access to cards and Point of Interaction devices for market testing
- Access to robust technical support and an advanced implementation team
- Access partner developer tools to reduce the time to and cost of testing solutions
Market Development
- Get support developing, refining and implementing Product and Go To Market Strategy
- Leverage a vast network of partners and Early Adopters to shorten Time To Market
- Reach more digitally excluded users faster through a nation-wide mixed-use Shared Digital Agent Network
- Empower digitally excluded users through collaborative stakeholder education to drive solution adoption and usage
Partners looking to Build Solutions With the Digital Rails typically:
- Have an existing technology-enabled solution for hard-to-reach communities, or the technical, product and related capabilities in place to develop and deploy such solution at scale
- The solution includes an Android Application
- The solution solves one or more problems in Agriculture, Education, or enables Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise resilience
- The solution targets one or more of youth, women, smallholder famers, students, educators or small business owners
- The solution has at least 10,000 active End Users
Our partners go through a simple process to join the Program
Apply
Complete initial conversation
Internal Review
Detailed conversation
Application decision
Onboarding
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
- Enrich your existing solutions for hard-to-reach communities
- Reduce the complexity of serving these communities
- Reach more of these communities faster
Partners looking to Use Solutions Built By Program Partners typically:
- Are looking to or already serve hard-to-reach communities in Agriculture, Education, or enables Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise resilience
- Serve youth, women, smallholder famers, students, educators or small business owners
- Have an existing technology-enabled solution for hard-to-reach communities, or the technical, product and related capabilities in place to integrate such solutions
- Have at least 10,000 existing customers
Our partners go through a simple process to join the Program
Explore solutions
Express Interest
Initial Conversation
Introduction
Solutioning
Deploy
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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