Ugandan youngsters are being exhorted to embrace technology by Bonny Omara, the team’s lead engineer who helped develop Uganda’s first-ever satellite for the international space station.
According to Omara, who designed the international satellite design program with two other Ugandans and two Japanese engineers, such technologies present job opportunities that would address the difficulties of unemployment that the nation is currently suffering.
In an interview with URN from Gulu City, he said that the government should make significant investments in technology and support those who are interested in it across all industries.
Omara contends that technology has a place in a variety of industries, including agriculture, weather, health, government, data collection, and education, and that this has the effect of creating thousands of new jobs.
The parlAficaSat-1 cube-type satellite for Uganda was launched into low-Earth orbit last year.
It is intended to provide research and observation data that will offer solutions in the mapping of land, water, minerals, and agriculture, as well as in the weather forecast.
Additional responsibilities include border security, infrastructure development, and catastrophe prevention.
Kakebe Technologies began a two-year initiative on Saturday to teach 1,000 young people from Northern Uganda’s major cities digital skills in order to provide job prospects.
The program, according to Innocent Byegarazo of Kakebe Technologies, aims to combat youth unemployment by fostering leadership in the nation’s information technology and innovation industry.
A social media pioneer, Esther Makumbi, claims that technology aids in the creation of jobs, the sale of enterprises, the building of brands and networks, and the creation of solutions to societal problems.
According to Sharon Abalo, a student at the Gulu Institute of Health Science, learning institutions should be included in the effort to promote technology among young people so that they know what to do after school.
