Tag Archives: TECHNOLOGY

    In June 2026, Uganda and UNESCO validated the country’s AI Readiness Assessment on its preparedness to adopt and govern AI responsibly   NEWS ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | The machine that decides the price of a Ugandan’s airline ticket, helps a farmer detect pest damage or writes a …

  However, the groups differ in how they think about the technology   COMMENT | SARA HARMOUCH | Artificial intelligence may not create a new kind of terrorism, but it makes existing tactics cheaper, faster and easier. That is the central argument of a July 2026 report from the U.S.-based think …

  China-Uganda ties are moving beyond infrastructure, raising questions over who captures the value   Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Mariam, a woman in her late twenties, works at Nice Textiles Uganda Limited inside the Sino-Uganda Mbale Industrial Park. Her work begins with thread and ends with fabric. “Here, …

 Berlin, Germany | AGENCIES | TECNO has spent years building its name in the fiercely competitive smartphone market, particularly across emerging economies where aggressive pricing, design and an expanding product range have helped newer brands challenge long-established technology companies. Now, the company is attempting a different  transition. At IFA ShowStoppers 2026 …

  By revolutionizing how we combat disease,warfare, and stimulate income growth, AI could fundamentally alter the terms of human existence   COMMENT | DAMBISA MOYO |  Over the long sweep of history, three forces have driven humanity’s greatest transformations, for good and ill: disease, war, and economic growth. By reducing costs …

AI has  become the frontline of an intense global competition for economic  and geopolitical power but, for whom is this intelligence ultimately meant to serve? COMMENT | KAILASH SATYARTHI |  The defining question of our time is no longer whether AI will transform our world. It already has. What the world needs …

    The Asian nation was absent from the pitch, but its technology, factories and brands helped power football’s biggest spectacle   NEWS ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | The irony could hardly be greater. China, a country that has struggled for decades to become a football powerhouse, did not feature …

  Drawing together evidence from laboratory research, clinical trials and real-world studies, the review also highlights the technology’s potential beyond COVID-19   NEWS ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | After more than two decades of research and billions of vaccine doses delivered, mRNA vaccines are firmly established as a safe and effective …

  AI is already reshaping lawmaking across many parliaments around the globe and the Parliament of Uganda should not be left behind   COMMENT | KENEDY MUSEKURA | Dear Honourable Members of Parliament, Congratulations upon the trust and responsibilities entrusted to you by Ugandans as you prepare to shape laws and …

Will Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical do for the AI age what Rerum Novarum did for the industrial age?   COMMENT | NIUSHA SHAFIABADY & OTHERS | Pope Leo XIV has just declared artificial intelligence one of the defining moral challenges of our time, in his first encyclical: a formal letter intended …