PROFILE:
Dr. Josephine Nabukenya is a Senior Lecturer of Information Systems and Dean of the School of Computing and Informatics Technology (CIT), at Makerere University, Uganda. She earned her PhD in Information Systems (Collaboration Engineering) from Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands in 2008. Her research focuses on issues related to Collaboration Engineering; Analysis and Design of Information Flow; Business Process Modeling; Enterprise Engineering and Requirements Engineering. She is in the Software and Enterprise Engineering (S&EE) research group of CIT, and the Enterprise Engineering (EE) Research Network. Josephine is a Professional member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), and a Program Committee member for several journals and conferences such as EJCS, IJCIR, HICSS, ECIS, and ICCIR among others.

Josephine is also a Makerere University Senate member and represents Senate on the: University Council Committee of Quality Assurance, Gender and ICT; Academic Board of the College of Engineering, Design Art and Technology; and Board of Research and Graduate Training. She is the Chairperson of the Academic Board and member of the Executive Council of NetTel@Africa. She is also a member of the Global Engineering Deans’ Council (GEDC).

Before joining Makerere University in 2002, Josephine worked as a Senior Information Scientist for the Resource Centre of the Uganda Ministry of Health in 2000 – 2001. From the Ministry, she joined the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) as an Assistant Lecturer and also served as the Research Coordinator till 2004 prior to embarking on her doctorate journey. On return, she served as the Head of Information Technology Department in the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (formerly the ICS and now a School) in 2009 – 2010. She lectures and conducts research supervision of graduate students in Information Systems specialty and related fields.