Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Head of Deliver Dwelling Investors Protection Unit (SHIPU), Col. Edith Nakalema, has reiterated her unit’s dedication to guiding and preserving innovators to ranking definite they thrive in Uganda’s conducive investment climate. “The President directed us to collaboratively coordinate stakeholders to provide a thriving investment climate by preserving merchants or any totally different particular individual that adds mark to our country’s economic system,” Nakalema mentioned while addressing the media for the length of the ongoing National Science Week 2025 at Kololo Independence Grounds.
Working below the theme: “Made in Uganda Innovation to market”, the tournament organised by the Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation– Office of the President brought collectively innovators, scientists, Industry leaders and regulators to contemporary and expose the science at the aid of their innovations and how these are being transitioned from laboratory to market. Nakalema defined that all viable investments, along with innovations, made in Uganda should still be protected by all methodology. “It is our work to ranking definite what it’s possible you’ll contain already innovated is protected,” Nakalema mentioned.
She moreover known as upon innovators to ranking beautiful utilize of SHIPU and totally different authorities agencies adore the Deliver Dwelling Anti-Corruption Unit to file inappropriate facets or exploitation developments, thus assuring them that, as authorities, they’ll attain the needful by guaranteeing that such criminals face the long arm of the rules. Nakalema added that following Museveni’s steering, SHIPU, in partnership with NITA-U and totally different agencies, came up with the Digital Investors Protection Portal (EIPP) to curb challenges adore fraud faced by merchants.
EIPP gives merchants with official records, inquiries, verifications and suggestions. “Ensuing from EIPP, Uganda’s International Order Funding (FDI) has elevated by 30 p.c in now not up to 2 years,” she mentioned.
She commended the leadership of the Science, Technology and Innovation Secretariat and totally different leaders in Uganda for promoting science within the country, urging that science-led solutions are the backbone of the country. On the totally different hand, the SHIPU head requested the media to promote Ugandan innovations by showcasing them to the realm thru totally different media channels. “Search advice from us that Uganda is creating and our enjoy are the ones doing so,” she illustrious.
The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr. Monica Musenero, assured Ugandans that the country is on the ethical computer screen and transferring very like a flash when it comes to science, technology and innovation. “Now we contain done a bunch of science; we contain our technology and are still creating it. Now we contain done a bunch of innovations to present purposeful solutions to concerns,” she mentioned.
The Minister moreover disclosed that innovators contain managed to translate their innovations into industrial aspects and are now in a position to rob pleasure in them. “Several firms are right here, and we are now ready to rob our products to the market. We now mark the market, and we are ready to delivery our products on the market. We’re telling the realm that Uganda has been in a position to translate the idea into the market. Now we contain products adore medicines which meet the international requirements, and we are now ready to sell these products,” Musenero mentioned.
She implored Ugandans to present a boost to the local products by giving them a market. She assured them that these products are of high of the diversity with life like prices. “Now we contain a truly sizable supermarket right here plump of quality products. We’re now constructing a Uganda profile of products that can resolve concerns.”
Musenero printed that the science sector has been in a position to in part curb the tell of unemployment amongst the childhood since it has added over 70,000 jobs to the economic system. On the tell of preserving innovations, Musenero suggested scientists to register their products with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation so as that they’re given patent rights.
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