“The Q3 release aligns with our efforts to reallocate resources from old priorities to key growth drivers. Our focus remains on promoting technical efficiency and ensuring service delivery at the lowest cost,” said Ggoobi.
For the past eight years, Stanbic Bank Uganda has hosted secondary school debate competitions known as the Stanbic National School Championship. The competition aims to identify and promote talent, stimulate innovation, and recognize the best innovative idea with significant business sense and societal impact.
Dennis Aguma, Founder of NASE (Association of Student Enterprises) Africa, says for example, that the institutions do not seem to be training for the future, but for the current situation. He says that before the graduates start putting into practice what they have learned, the global industry has moved on.
Musenero stressed that over the years, scientists have developed affordable technologies aimed at mechanizing the agricultural sector and boosting the quality of farmers’ yields, but they are inaccessible to the target beneficiaries.
But the high cost of the internet, digital illiteracy and low availability of friendly gadgets is limiting the access and use of digital innovations, which put an even greater risk that the rural and the poor will remain behind.