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Empowering Youth In Technology and innovations in western Uganda

About us

EYIT empowers Youth through Capacity Building (Training and Mentorship), Financing (provision of micro loans to young entrepreneurs) and Digital Marketing Services.

EYIT is a technology and innovation hub that nurtures innovators/entrepreneurs and supports innovative startups to thrive as well as builds entrepreneurial tech community in Southwestern Uganda. EYIT is a place where tech entrepreneurs and business community meet to share ideas and innovate new innovative products and services for both Government and private sector.

EYIT was incorporated in March 2018 by Uganda registration services bureau and is now a home for researchers, innovators, tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs in Mbarara. EYIT strives to increase employment opportunities for the youth through building their capacity to identify ideas and transform them into innovations, providing them with micro loans and marketing.

EYIT Primary Purpose

To build technology driven innovative businesses and capacity of innovators and entrepreneurs in Uganda.

Empowering youth to ensure that they are skilling up for the fourth industrial revolution using Technology to support entrepreneurship

  • Community Hackathons
  • Innovator-Mentor Meetups
  • EYIT Business Academy
  • Online Media Academy
  • Coding for business
  • Startup Garage
  • Innovators and Community think tank
  • Innovators and Community think tank

Youths Trained and Mentored

350

Innovations under development

10

Mentors

50