Uganda Ministry of ICT and National Guidance

Communities in Uganda need to enhance digital literacy and foster uptake of digital tools, acquire digital skills training that provide them with job-ready skills, improve workplace efficiency and enhance chances of employability, this activity shall improve the capacity of policymakers to design and implement digital skills programs; it shall ensure scalability and self-sustainability in digital skills capacity development and provide participants with digital technologies, innovation and entrepreneurship. This activity shall involve training 3,500 Ugandans on basic ICT literacy. The trainings shall be conducted using a mobile laboratory targeting women and youth in the informal sector (mechanics, plumbers, market vendors, etc). This shall be done across 15 districts of the country.

In 2024, Uganda will build and launch a National Identification Registration system that is built based on a DPG, Modular Open-Source Identity Platform (MOSIP), with support from IIT-B. The expected outcomes are to achieve streamlined registration of all occupants in Uganda including citizens and non-citizens. The benefit is improved planning, ability to improve access to social and public services and increased security through strengthened crime tracking.

In order to foster homegrown digital solutions and increase the employment of the youths in Uganda, the country has moved to install regional innovation hubs as public infrastructure that provides access to innovators within the community to space, internet and necessary innovation tools. Within these same facilities, the innovators are also offered training and mentorship and networking opportunities with partners and government. Additionally, government through the Ministry of ICT &NG usually offers grants to innovators that have solutions to government challenges and normally purchase these solutions and take them to the market.