On November 3rd 2016, ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) held the 2nd Modular Knowledge and Information Transaction Systems (MKITS) photo and video challenge award giving ceremony which was attended by 86 people from all walks of life at the RAN premises. The purpose of the Challenge was to create awareness and encourage more people to document not […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Modular Knowledge and Information Transaction Systems (MKITS) Challenge 2016Date: October 18, 2016 Venue: Makerere University School of Public Health ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) Innovation Lab on Plot 30, Upper Kololo Terrace, Kampala Uganda. The Essence ResilientAfrica Network’s Eastern Africa Resilience Innovation Lab (EA RILab) at Makerere University is pleased to announce award worth 952M (Nine hundred fifty two million shillings only) to 8 innovation […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on The Resilience Innovation Challenge 4 Conflict (RIC4CONF) Grants Call Awards CeremonyThe 5th annual College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT) open day and fashion show took place on Friday October 21st, 2016 to Saturday October 22nd 2016 at Makerere University. This event provides an opportunity for students and staff to exhibit and showcase all the innovative projects they are working on. In the same […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Makerere University College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology 5th Open Day and Fashion Show 2016During the interactive Innovation Marketplace at the USAID’s Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN) technical convening TechCon 2016 in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston USA, November 10-12, 2016, innovators from Makerere University College of Health Sciences School of Public Health-ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) scooped top two cash prizes out of 24 competitors in the category of […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Makerere University tops all again at TechCon 2016!Makerere University School of Public Health – ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) is pleased to invite you to the 2nd Innovation Garage on Friday 31st July 3:00pm – 6:00pm. Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-innovation-garage-ran-hosting-rootio-tickets-17893239160 This month we shall host RootIO – Community Radio: We shall focus on designing a low cost Radio Tower for RootIO to bring down the […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Innovation GarageMakerere University – ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) in conjunction with AidData Center for Development Policy (AidData – USA) , one of the Development Labs under the Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN) is pleased to announce a GIS Hackathon that will take place on Thursday,30th July 2015 from 7:30am – 6:00pm at RAN Innovation Lab in Kololo. […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Building Community Resilience towards Climate Change Effects: The power of GISInnovation showcased to farmers in Iganga District One of the innovations under incubation in the ResilientAfrica Network’s (RAN) Eastern Africa Resileince Innovation Lab, Improved Push and Pull Innovation excited farmers in Eastern Uganda. as they witnessed the controlled gardens mushrooming with the Striga weed (the major constraint to maize production in the region) being suppressed. This […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Improved Push and Pull Project causes impact in the communityMIT- CITE Team Engages Makerere University -COBAMS Students through RAN in Evaluating Post-harvest Storage Technologies in a Supply chain contract elicitation Exercise This summer of 2015, The Comprehensive Initiative for Technology Evaluation (CITE) at MIT, a USAID supported initiative, engaged 40 students from Makerere University College of Business and Management Sciences (CoBAMs) to run a […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on MIT-CITE Engages Mak- studentsMakerere University School of Public Health- Young Disaster Resilience Leadership Program (yDRL) in collaboration with Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and the different communities within Makindye Division successfully conducted the community clean up exercise on Friday June 25, 2015. The YDRL is a pilot program targeting youth in vulnerable communities in Kampala, Uganda. The project […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Young Disaster Resilience Leadership Program in the communitiesThe first garage focused on Innovation as a cornerstone and key transformational element for development and was guided by the Theme; “Catalyzing Engineering Solutions”. All my life, I have only heard and known about the motor vehicle garages both for parking and mechanical repairs. Did you know that there are Innovation Garages too? Well, Friday […]
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