Achieving Uganda’s NDP 4Growth Agenda:

Technological change has always altered the fortunes of nations. The first industrial revolution reorganized production around steam and mechanization. The second placed electricity, steel and railways at the centre of industrial power. The third built the modern world around electronics, computing and telecommunications. The fourth, now deepening through artificial intelligence, biotechnology, robotics, data systems, climate technologies and digital trade, is reorganizing economic value around knowledge, standards, intellectual property and the ability of nations to commercialize innovation.
Uganda’s development challenge must, therefore, be read in this context. The country is naturally endowed, agriculturally fertile, youthful, increasingly connected and strategically located within the East African Community. It produces coffee, tea, fish, dairy, fruits, minerals, cultural works, indigenous knowledge and digital services. Yet the country continues to capture limited value from many of these assets because the higher-value activities in most value chains occur elsewhere.