This week CIT will be hosting Mr. Dillon Dhaneca from Business Excellence UK sharing his experience and passion for Business Development.This will take place at LLT3 Block B at 2:00pm Friday 12/March/2010

“We have problems in collecting data on farmers one by one. By the time you get to the last farmer, things have changed. It is cumbersome; it takes a lot of time. We are here to get the solution” those were the words of Bernard Tayebwa, the Agribusiness manager of Uganda Cooperative Alliance on the 15th February while meeting some of the staff members at CIT.

The meeting was under the Mobile Innovations and Enterprise project, which focuses on coming up with mobile solutions to solve paradoxes.
CIT was asked to come up with a mobile solution that can be used to support rural farmers in Kayunga district in the better management of their produce and devise a means of communicating to farmers about how to export their produce in time, safe guardin  ....read more

Dr. Rai’s research undertake has received a boost of $50,000 gift grant from the Cisco University Research Program Fund, a corporate advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, California. The purpose of the gift is to support his research on wireless network technologies, following his winning research proposal entitled:  Investigating Large-scale WiMAX Mesh Networks, that he submitted to CISCO research.

The continuous lack of fixed/wired connectivity in developing countries has led negligible broadband access in the countries.  Therefore, there is s huge potential for emerging wireless technologies to revolutionize the broadband access in developing countries. Dr. Rai’s research seeks to investigate technical and regulatory cha  ....read more

The Deputy Dean in charge of Academic Affairs, Dr. Idris Rai, has revealed that CIT is to stop using laptops and desktop computers for lecturing, in favour of the more affluent tablet PC. Dr. Rai made this revelation during a training workshop organized under the hp network project for CIT academic staff, on how to use tablet PCs in teaching and learning.

“Technology has enabled changes in time from black boards with chalk, to white boards with pens, computers came and allowed for power point presentations – which did not eliminate the white board. But the tablet Pc has eliminated the white boards and allows you to interact with the content and with students, and also allows for recording of the activities. So the future is bright, it is about better lea  ....read more

On the 26th of February, all roads led to the Large Lecture Theater 3 (LLT 3) Block B, to attend the re-launched mentor series. Students and staff members alike, filled the seats to listen in to the speaker of the day, The CEO of New Vision , Robert Kabushenga. He indeed met their expectations as he skillfully took them through how he has managed to get to where he is today, from a humble background, having been raised by a single parent. Kabushenga emphasized the need for students to stay focused on their studies, have good work etiquette, and avoid negative thinking. Below is a section of his speech.

“Be humble in your willingness to learn. You may have all the degrees but if you have a very bad work ethic, u can not be in office when you are required to be, yo  ....read more

Microsoft Research in partnership with the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) and the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) has established the TWAS-AAS-Microsoft Award for Young Scientists for the three year period 2009-2011. The prize has been established to recognize young scientists working and living in Africa whose research in computer science has had, or could have, a positive impact in the developing world. Each year three winners will be selected from three different African countries and presented with their prizes at a special ceremony to be held in Nairobi, Kenya organized by TWAS and AAS. Each recipient will receive a Euro 7,000 cash award generously contributed by Microsoft.

Please download the document which includes a nomination form. Kindly send your nomi  ....read more

As part of Google ongoing commitment to encouraging women to excel in computing and technology, Google is pleased to offer Google EMMEA Travel and Conference Grants to encourage more female computer scientists to attend and participate in conferences....download advert

Dr. Rai will be conducting a short workshop (from 8:30am -12:30am) on the use tablets for teaching. The workshop is open to all CIT academic staff, but is emphasized for new staff who could not attend a similar workshop we had last year.

The workshop will be on Tuesday the 2^nd of March at Network and Systems lab BLOCK B starting from 8:30am. You are invited to the workshop to equip yourself with skills in using this powerful technology for interactive teaching , and prepare for some surprises!

It's your chance to try your skills against fellow coders and algorithmic whizzes!
Who: African university students and their favorite coding languages.
What: An opportunity to match wits with fellow African programmers and practice for Global Code Jam 2010 (coming soon)!
When: Sign up now to participate in Round 1 on March 15th. Winners will proceed to Round 2 on March 22nd.
Where: Register here
Why: You could win a t-shirt or Google prize pack! Interested in Google internships? Register now and let us know! Outstanding performance in Code Jam
Africa 2010 may be considered if you apply for an internship at our Engineering Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland  ....read more

This year was awash with news that Makerere University had topped the East and Central region in the latest rankings. The University was in the 15th position in the whole of Africa, with South Africa and Egypt taking the lead.

Web rankings follow increase in research publications on the web. Much as the entire university plus its academic and non-academic units have been congratulated for the work well done, it is time to put a few facts in the limelight!

Top in the rank is dspace, which is the Makerere University repository. Both the academic and non-academic units contribute to dspace, and the large volumes sent here partly explain how the university got to the top.

The rankings promote web publication by the different univers  ....read more

1.Lab Assistant (Mobile Computing)	Download
2.Computer Technician	Download
3.Instructors Department of Professional skills Dev.	Download

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CIT has topped last year’s list as ICT Training Institution of the year according to Uganda ICT forum. The winners were announced on 27th Jan.2010. The faculty Dean, Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba, scooped best ICT man of the year, while top ICT woman of the year is Dr. Dorothy Okello, from Technology. ‘We are going to continue doing well. It is important that the faculty keeps up the team spirit,’ said Prof. Barya. Other categories include top ICT solutions developer of the year award, taken by Comtel Integrators Africa Ltd, Bank of the year embracing ICT is Standard Chartered Bank, and WBS TV, comes off as top media company of the year promoting ICT. The Awards recognize excellence of best performing and innovative Individuals, Companies, Orga  ....read more

Friday 19 February 2010, LUG will launch of the Makerere Linux Chapter, at CIT Block B LLT 3 starting at 4:00PM. Details of the program are available online at http://linux.or.ug/node/67

CIT launched its OpenXdata software to 50 schools in Mbale and 50 schools in Kiboga district on 28th Jan 2010. The OpenXdata platform will be used by these schools in recording data on pupil attendance using mobile phones. The Netherlands Development Organization, SNV, in collaboration with Makerere University Faculty of Computing and IT (CIT) availed the schools with Nokia phones to kick start the process, under the ‘CU@school project’.

Under the Department of innovation and Software development (DSID), CIT was charged with developing, deploying and training head teachers on how to use the software. An advance team from DISD trained head teachers in these schools on how to use the opeXdata platform and they in turn will teach fellow teachers.
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