The Global Technovation Challenge is an annual global technology entrepreneurship program and competition for girls around the world between the ages of 10 to 18. The program instills in these girls, key skills in mobile application development, entrepreneurship, problem solving and team work. The competition follows a 12-week curriculum that teaches girls to identify and address pertinent challenges in their […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on The National Technovation Challenge 2017On Saturday the 15th of July 2017, some of the RAN student interns were privileged to take part in the celebration of World Youth Skills day in an event organized by Challenges Worldwide and the Innovation Village in Ntinda, Kampala Uganda. Following the theme “Skills development to improve youth employment,”the afternoon offered many workshops on practical employability skills and career […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on RAN at the World Youth Skills Day Event, July 15, 2017Following the just concluded first ever State of the Map conference organized by the OpenStreetMap (OSM) community in Africa, Chad Blevins from the Geo Center at the Global Development Lab, USAID Washington D.C together with 6 Geo Mappers from Uganda, Kenya and Malawi visited the RAN Innovation Lab. During this visit, the team toured the Innovation Lab […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Geo Mappers at RAN- July 11, 2017On July 3rd, 2017, the ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) enrolled a total of 31 students as student interns. The students come from various universities including Makerere University, Kyambogo University, International Health Sciences University in Uganda and Makerere University Business School and are currently either in their second or third year of studies, pursuing courses in Engineering, […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on RAN on boards the 4th cohort of student internsMakerere University School of Public Health ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) team engaged partners across the RAN Network (18 African Universities in 13 Countries http://www.ranlab.org/about-us/what-is-ran ) in the 4th RAN Partners Forum held at the RAN Innovation Lab on Plot 28, Upper Kololo Terrace, Kampala Uganda. This Partners Forum was guided by the theme ‘Demonstrating RAN’s 5 Year Impact and how […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on RAN Partners Forum 2017-June 20-21, 2017Today, many of the most transformative business models and technology solutions are coming from the African continent and African Universities are well positioned to support their national governments in fostering scientific research and innovations to address development challenges in Africa while improving development outcomes. The ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) led by Makerere University in partnership with […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on The African Resilience Summit, June 23-24, 2017On July 3rd, 2017, the ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) enrolled a total of 31 students as student interns. The students come from various universities including Makerere University, Kyambogo University, International Health Sciences University in Uganda and Makerere University Business School and are currently either in their second or third year of studies, pursuing courses in Engineering, […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on RAN on boards the 4th cohort of student internsDate: 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 2016 Innovating Justice Boostcamp held on Friday September 23rd 2016, attracted 100 multidisciplinary participants including mentors and judges to listen to the pitches from 6 promising Justice Innovators fromover 400 applications which came in across the African continent, standing a chance to win a part of 160,000 EUR in funding among other benefits. These […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Innovating Justice Bootcamp Kampala held at RAN, Friday September 23, 2016The Collaborative Resilience Innovation Design for Food Security and Diversified Livelihoods in the face of Rapid Urbanization (CRID4FAL) Grants Call-Open ResilientAfrica Network (RAN)– West Africa Resilience Innovation Lab (WA RILab) is pleased to announce and invite applications for the Collaborative Resilience Innovation Design for Food Security and Diversified Livelihoods in the face of Rapid Urbanization (CRID4FAL) […]
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