The Prime Minister, Robina Nabbanja has urged Ugandans to utilise the available home-grown and imported innovations and technologies to address the effects of Covid-19 and climate change.
“The country is undergoing rapid population growth which is putting pressure on the already constrained natural resources, infrastructure and social services,” Ms Nabbanja noted in a speech read by government Chief Whip Mr Thomas Tayebwa, during the opening of a two-day Appropriate Technology exhibition held at Kololo Independence grounds on November 26.
“Although they are playing a critical role, home-grown innovations and technologies have not been harnessed for socio-economic development largely because they have remained unknown, inaccessible, un regulated and not guided,” she observed.
According to Ms Nabbanja, Covid-19 has affected the country’s gains towards achievement of Uganda’s…