100 ICT experts trained
Feb 16, 2009
INFORMATION and Communication Technology (ICT) practitioners have been urged to create special software applications to develop businesses of the companies they work for.
By Francis Kagolo
INFORMATION and Communication Technology (ICT) practitioners have been urged to create special software applications to develop businesses of the companies they work for.
The presidential special assistant on ICT, Kin Kariisa, said many companies were running inefficiently due to inadequate computing systems to support their businesses.
“It is high time we stopped depending on foreign ICT software applications,†Kariisa noted.
He was presiding over the passing out of the first experts of Makerere University’s ICT incubation centre at the Kampala Protea Hotel on Friday.
A total of 100 graduates from various Ugandan universities received certificates.
Among the projects they worked on was the development of software that can enable the national medical stores to track drugs in hospitals.
Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba, the faculty dean, said the centre would train 1,000 ICT experts in practical skills each year.
INFORMATION and Communication Technology (ICT) practitioners have been urged to create special software applications to develop businesses of the companies they work for.
The presidential special assistant on ICT, Kin Kariisa, said many companies were running inefficiently due to inadequate computing systems to support their businesses.
“It is high time we stopped depending on foreign ICT software applications,†Kariisa noted.
He was presiding over the passing out of the first experts of Makerere University’s ICT incubation centre at the Kampala Protea Hotel on Friday.
A total of 100 graduates from various Ugandan universities received certificates.
Among the projects they worked on was the development of software that can enable the national medical stores to track drugs in hospitals.
Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba, the faculty dean, said the centre would train 1,000 ICT experts in practical skills each year.