Acknowledgments
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his report was wri en by Sara E. Farley of the Global Knowledge Initiative and Caroline S. Wagner of SRI International. The team was assisted by Kamau Bobb, Thiru Naidoo-Swe enham, Sheila O’Brien, Robin Skulrak, Peter Tindemans, and text editor Paul Hol . The authors also benefited from extensive input, guidance, and suggestions from teams at the Uganda National Council of Science and Technology (UNCST) and the Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI). In particular, UNCST’s Peter Ndemere, Maxwell Otim, Julius Ecuru, and Ismail Barugahara and UIRI’s Charles Kwesiga, Dick Kamugasha, Vincent Makoha, Moses Aheebwa, Abbas Nimanya, and Brenda Akuruchet offered substantial time over the years that the report evolved. The report was conceived by the World Bank’s Africa Region Senior Science and Technology Specialist, Michael Crawford, and the World Bank Institute’s Senior Education Specialist, Robert Hawkins. Initially the two sought to analyze the role of science, technology, and innovation in industry across several East and Southern African countries. The team was lead and supported by Jee-Peng Tan, Advisor in the Bank’s Africa Region, who helped craft the focus of the studies. The Bank-funded Uganda Millennium Science Initiative’s original Task Team Leader, Michael Crawford, initiated the Uganda study and supported the report team in creating a useful methodology to gauge the role that science, technology, and innovation play in key sectors, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises. He and Sector Manager Christopher Thomas were pivotal to the successful launch of the Uganda report. Under the watch of Crawford and Hawkins, the team of authors constructed the methodology presented here and convened a pan-African validation exercise. Participants from across the continent convened in Maputo, Mozambique, in 2008 to validate the methodology, offer comments, and explore opportunities to use the studies in articulating national strategies and se ing priorities. The report team is grateful to the many people who a ended the regional workshop, which was sponsored by the Finnish Government, the World Bank Institute, and the Bank’s Maputo office. In 2009 the World Bank and the Uganda National Council on Science and Technology convened the many Ugandan interviewees at a meeting generously hosted by Mukwano Industries. For those insights and validation, the report team extends its deepest thanks. Sukhie Brar replaced Crawford as the Task Team Leader of the Millennium Science Initiative in 2009. Her dedication to finalizing the report ensured that its insights were widely shared and used to infuse the launch of a national strategy for science, technology, and innovation. This report’s richness derives from hundreds of pages of transcripts captured through interviews conducted in the agriculture, health, energy, information and communication technology (ICT), transport, and logistics sectors. Extensive interviews with entrepreneurs, owners of small and medium-sized enterprises, government researchers, and decision makers in government and industry involved the following gracious thought leaders: Dr. Grace Nambatya, Harriet Musisi, Peter Otimodoch, Dr. Nantualya, Robert Kyukyu, B.W. Rwabwogo, Apollo Ntarirwa, Robert Okonja, Geoffrey Owen, Annick De Graeve, Kepher Kateu, Ben Manyindo, Ochaki Abuberkerer, Agi Konde, ix