Pan-African e-Network Project is a  joint initiative of the Govt. of India and African Union and is funded by the Govt. of India at an estimated cost of US$116 Million. In Uganda the project is implemented by the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology with three components namely Tele-Education, Telemedicine and VVIP Diplomatic Communications. The Tele-Education mode hosted at Makerere University Faculty of Computing and Informatics Technology aims at imparting education to 10000 students of African countries participating in the project, using modern information communication technologies, from some of the topnotch universities of India. The eligible students enrolled in various programmes will be required to attend the classes in the learning centre set up in each member country as part of the project.

Learning centers would connect  to the specific Indian university as per pre-defined lecture schedule available at the Tele-Education portal. Highly experienced faculty shall deliver the live, interactive lectures from the Tele-education studio set up in  the Indian universities. A unique feature of the tele-education system in the project is the offline access  to the lecture contents stored in the database at the Data centre , through internet for review learning.

Amity University

Amity University the current leading educational provider in India and has excelled in the educational arena for the last 15 years, in collaboration with the Makerere University Faculty of Computing and Informatics Technology is pleased to announce the call for applications to join new academic graduate, postgraduate and diploma programs.

Makerere University, Faculty of Computing and Informatics Technology (CIT) was selected by the government of Uganda as the National e-learning centre and by the African Union Commission (AUC) together with the Government of India as the Regional centre for the Pan e-Network Project. Through the Regional Centre, Makerere University will be providing support  to Universities in the  eastern region of the AUC.

Amity University will provide educational virtual solutions the first of its kind to the regional population through the state of the art e-learning technology and video conferencing facilities set up at Makerere University Faculty of Computing and Informatics Technology. The degrees and the diplomas will be awarded to the successful candidates by Amity University of India.

Amity University through Makerere University wishes to invite applicants who want to join the following programmes:

Note: Each successful candidate is exempted from tuition fees. But upon admission by Amity University, operational fees will be paid to the learning centre (Makerere University).

Application fee is 100,000/= UGSH . Pick Application forms and Cash deposit slips from the Front office, Faculty of Computing and IT and make payments to DFCU Bank (Account Name: Faculty of Computing & IT, Account No. 01L2550588800).

Handwritten applications forms together with certified photocopies of academic documents and any other supporting documents plus the deposit slips should be brought to Makerere University Faculty of Computing and Informatics Technology, Block A Front office not later than 27th July 2009.