TECH NEWS

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation (UPPC) is steadily advancing to meet contemporary printing and publishing demands, following significant improvements to this official government publisher. The 123-year-old printing house, once merely respected as the Uganda Gazette printer, has acquired state-of-the-art printing machinery. Its digitalization efforts …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa has emphasised the importance of making educational websites accessible to all children, especially in rural areas. Tayebwa made the remarks at the launch of the CanalBox – Group Vivendi Africa (GVA) Uganda, an internet service provider that targets to …

BEIJING | Xinhua |  Amid the global race to build artificial general intelligence, the development of stronger computing power has become a major focal point of China’s strategic initiatives, driven by the needs of a booming digital economy and innovations in large language models. Data revealed at the Global Digital …

With Africa’s youth increasingly taking to smartphones to engage in a variety of activities – including civic and political activism – on social media, smart handset shipments are on the rise across the continent. They have now overtaken feature phone shipments for the first time, according to new reports. SPECIAL …

The e-mobility sector will be private sector-led with the government supporting the policy aspects. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Energy has put up two public electric vehicle charging stations in Kampala. The stations located at Amber House along Kampala are part of efforts to support the electric …

BEIJING | Xinhua |  After technological advances in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry marked by large language model (LLM) fever since 2022, Chinese firms in the rapidly advancing sector have cemented their position as major players and are intensifying efforts to narrow the gap with forerunners. According to a SuperBench …

COMMENT| Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko | For over sixty decades, from the Mali Empire through to the OAU Summit of May 1963 and incrementally to date, African unity has remained but a collective dream. One that has been sustained more by a recognition of its essence rather than a conviction for its …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Directorate of Government Analytical Laboratories (DGAL) has attained accreditation to the international standard for testing and calibration in laboratories. Uganda and Zimbabwe’s Central Veterinary Laboratory (CVL) have been receiving support of the IAEA and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Achieving this …

Interviews conducted with people in Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda, found widespread links between online violence and the offline world – or an “online-offline continuum of violence Geneva, Swtizerland | THE INDEPENDENT | Women and girls are disproportionately experiencing violence fuelled by the increasing use of …

A lack of global norms leaves Uganda’s government able to manipulate social media COMMENT | SOLOMON WINYI | Uganda is facing many of the same challenges with social media as other countries but the lack of globally accepted regulations has left a path for an authoritarian regime to stifle the public …