Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), in partnership with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and The Innovation Village, has awarded three Ugandan Start-ups for their innovative business models and technologies in response to changes in social and economic activity following the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. The startups won the Uganda Chapter of the “NINJA Business Plan Competition, dubbed the NINJA COVID-19 Response and Recovery Business Challenge”. While commenting on the recognition of the Start-ups, The Innovation Village Team Lead Japheth Kawanguzi said the emergence of Uganda’s M-Scan, a developer of low-cost mobile ultra-sound devices, as the best…
Japan International Cooperation Agency Awards Ugandan Startups for Outstanding Innovations

Innocent Menyo (left) founder M-Scan Solutions Uganda Limited receives an award from Fukase Yutaka (right) Chief Representative JICA Uganda after emerging the best innovative solution in Africa in the recently concluded the NINJA COVID-19 Response and Recovery Business Challenge held at The Innovation Village. Courtesy photo



