The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Sam Kutesa, attended the launch of the 2nd intake of the Pan African E-learning project on Monday 16th August 2010, through video conferencing at CIT. The launch, conducted in India, was relayed to Uganda by this facility. The Pan African E-learning project is a joint initiative of the Government of India and countries of the African Union. It is funded by the Government of India at an estimated cost of $116m....read more
A big number of first year students turned up for orientation at CIT on Monday 16th August 2010. The faculty organizes orientation for students every academic year, as a way of welcoming them to the faculty and preparing them for what lies ahead in their academic path....read more
A group of twenty five students from CIT exhibited their mobile phone based projects to representatives from the Industry at Metropole hotel in Kampala, on 6th August 2010. The exhibition was held under the Mobile Innovations and Entrepreneurship project funded by the British council in collaboration with Shieffield Hallam University in the UK....read more
The Faculty of computing and IT held its third workshop on Innovative Mobile Technology and Services for Developing countries (IMTS – DC ’10) on 30th July 2010, organized by CIT’s Department of Networks. The workshop was held under the theme, ‘Advance Locally Relevant Innovative Mobile Applications and Services.’ It attracted over sixty local and international participants from Mobile companies and the industry....read more
The 6th International Conference on Computing and ICT Research (ICCIR) 2010 was opened by the Minister for ICT, Hon. Aggrey Awori at Protea hotel Kampala. The conference, which runs from 2- 4th August, attracted over 70 delegates the World over and is being held under the theme ‘Strengthening the Role of ICTs in Development.’...read more
CIT Staff participated in a pilot workshop aimed at making sure that gender is incorporated in ICT training. The workshop, held on 26th – 29th July, was organized by the Department of Women and Gender studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences. It attracted both male and female participants from the four departments of Networks, Information Systems, Information Technology and Computer Science at CIT....read more
Ten members of staff from the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in Entebbe, attended a two week training in Interactive WebGIS at CIT from 5th July – 16th July 2010. The training was conducted by CIT’s Department of Professional Skills and Development, with Prof. Patrick J. Ogao as the facilitator....read more
Call for Papers/Abstracts and Keynote Speeches for the Annual International Conference on Computing and ICT Research (ICCIR 2011), at the Faculty of Computing and Informatics Technology, Makerere University Uganda http://cit.mak.ac.ug/iccir. Submission from the track of Computer Science, Information Technology, Information systems, ICT for Sustainable Development, Data Communication and Computer Networks, Computer Engineering and Software Engineering are greatly encouraged...read more
An event organised by the EuroAfrica-ICT EU project under the aegis of the European Commission (DG INFSO / International Relations Unit), with the support of the Finnish Government (Ministry for Foreign Affairs – MFA), and of the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
Note: The ‘3rd Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research’ will be organised in the framework of the ‘2010 Euro-Africa Week on ICT Research & e-Infrastructures’ and it will be co-located with the ‘1st Euro-Africa e-Infrastructures Conference‘ to be held on Dec. 9-10, 2010 at the same anticipated venue...read more
Computing Curricula for Sub-Saharan Africa brings together ICT scholars from Sub Saharan Africa to discuss the developing of relevant computing curricula. The scholars will exchange best practices in computing curriculum development, investigate the need of more relevant curricula that address our unique challenges, and deliberate on way forward.read more
The Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) is organizing the 2010 National Science Week (NSW) from 20th-24th September 2010 as part of its strategy to promote Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in Uganda. The theme of the Week is “Science, Technology and Innovation for National Development”. The NSW seeks to raise awareness on the pivotal role of science and technology in Uganda’s socio-economic development process, and to reflect on the achievements and progress towards enhancing Uganda’s national STI capacity...read more
Developing countries continue to record a high penetration rate of mobile and wireless technologies, far above the world's average. Various SMS-based mobile projects to support health, learning, governance, banking, democracy, etc have been identified based on mobile and Web technologies in these countries.
In addition, there is transformation of mobile terminals into highly capable and smart handsets to deliver public information and services, in a manner similar to personal computers...read More
The International Journal of Computing and ICT (IJCIR) is a peer reviewed International journal with an objective of providing a medium for academics to publish original cutting edge research in the field of computing and ICT. IJCIR publishes two issues per year: June and December of each year. IJCIR invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that communicates current research on computing and ICT both the theoretical and methodological aspects, as well as various applications in real world problems from science, technology, business or commerce...read more
The workshop is designed for service managers, account managers and customer-facing team members from the Enterprise sales unit of African telecommunications companies. It is particularly appropriate for employees who are part of the virtual account teams and have responsibility for managing customer service issues...read more
A peer reviewed International journal with the objective of providing a medium for academics to publish original cutting-edge research in the field of Computing and ICT...read more
Conference provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss state-of the-art research and best practices in ICT...read more
