Projects

ICT Policy and Strategy for the Health Sector — by Web editor — last modified 2007-11-12 13:51

The National Telemedicine / Telehealth Steering Committee of the Ministry of Health develops an implementation strategy for the ICT Health Sector Policy to facilitate efficient information and communication services running across the entire sector. Priority areas are improved access to health services, improved healthcare delivery through the Health Monitoring and Information System (HMIS), District health management, Telemedicine, and Continuing Medical Education (CME). The strategy will function as a guide for future investment in ICT in relation to its particular benefits in the sector, and facilitate controlled and efficient usage of resources.

Health Management Information System (HMIS) — by admin — last modified 2007-11-01 13:32

In 2001-2002, the Ugandan Ministry of Health launched a data management tool for health workers known as the Health Management Information System (HMIS). The Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (UCMB) joined the project in September 2004. The aim of this ambitious project is to support the Ministry of Health by using ICT to implement HMIS in over 250 Health Units and hospitals throughout the country.

Support to ICT sector policy, strategy and implementation plan - Tourism, Trade and Industry — by admin — last modified 2006-08-01 12:00

This project will initiate the development of an ICT policy and an implementation strategy for the sectors Tourism, Trade and Industry in Uganda. The project seeks active participation of policy makers through awareness raising and capacity development of top-level policy makers in the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Industry (MTTI) and its affiliated organisations. In addition, other stakeholders in the government, NGOs, private sector and up-country organisations provide input through a series of workshops.

Promoting Continuing Medical Education among Rural Health Workers by use of ICTs — by admin — last modified 2005-12-09 13:08

The project aims to contribute to poverty alleviation by helping to improve health care delivery through continuing medical education (CME) for rural health workers by using ICTs and multi-media. The major focus on gathering and repackaging high quality health information, enhancing communication for increased interaction, training in the use of basic ICTs and continuous monitoring and evaluation of CME activities. The project, which is co-sponsored by Cordaid and IICD, is implemented by Uganda Martyrs University (UMU), Faculty of Health Sciences (DHS), and the three hospitals of Itojo in Ntungamo district, Nkozi in Mpigi district and Mutolere in Kisoro district.

Rural Information System to support a Commodity Exchange — by admin — last modified 2005-11-23 11:19

Through this project, the Uganda Commodity Exchange enables farmers to send and receive market information for their produce to/from stakeholders in agricultural commodities’ marketing. This way, they can market their produce at good prices. By providing the link to better markets and market information, the project will increase the income of the farmers. The project also addresses the problem of lack of information for planning purposes, which is usually unavailable for the primary beneficiaries. Provision of the necessary infra-structure and an information analysis are part and parcel of the project.

ICT Maintenance Facility for Rural Uganda — by admin — last modified 2005-08-01 13:03

At five Uganda Technical Colleges (UTCs) a ‘ICT Maintenance Facility’ will be set up to provide technical support to rural Uganda, and to introduce a new course called ‘ICT Installation and Maintenance’ at the same colleges to train technicians who can provide technical support. The five UTCs are located in or near upcountry towns and are geographically well distributed in the country. The maintenance facility will not only take care of more than 100 pieces of ICT equipment in the first year and rising to about 500 by the fifth year, it will serve as a facility to offer industrial training to the technicians who will take the new two-year diploma course.

East African Centre for Open Source Software — by admin — last modified 2005-08-01 12:22

In Uganda there is an increasing need for knowledge about Open Source because of the growing demand for Open Source Software (OSS). EACOSS aims to meet this need for knowledge about Open Source by offering certified courses and establishing a knowledge centre for OSS. This project is the result of a very fruitful cooperation between a university (Martrys University in rural Uganda) and a commercial company specialised in offering back support services in OSS in Kampala. It is likely that within two years the project will be financially self reliable.

Improve Competence for Rural Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Using ICT — by admin — last modified 2005-07-13 14:11

One of the instruments that the Uganda government is using in order to alleviate poverty is promoting rural industrialization and turning primary/raw products to semi-finished or processed commodities through rural Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs). The Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI), the project owner of this project, is providing assistance to SMEs through partner centres in the country. UIRI offers training to the rural SMEs to improve their technical and management competence and it offers advisory services to the SMEs. This project is intended to improve the performance of the SMEs, by improving the quality of teaching materials and by providing ICT equipment such as telephone, fax, computers, printers, photocopier, and connectivity for email to the partner centres which can be utilized by the SMEs.

Information Flow Management and Networking — by admin — last modified 2006-12-07 13:36

The poor flow of information within Uganda’s Tourism, Trade and Industry sector is hampering its growth. The Ministry for Tourism, Trade and Industry therefore developed the Information Flow Management and Networking (IFMN) project in 2004 to address this issue. The project’s three main goals are: to train ministry staff to use ICTs; to set up an intranet at the ministry; and to help the ministry create its own website. These initiatives will improve the flow of information internally (between the ministry’s five departments) and externally (between the ministry and its affiliated institutions). In the long term, the ability to provide timely and accurate information, particularly to businesses at home and abroad, could mean the difference between an opportunity gained and an opportunity lost for this sector.

ICT Basic Training — by admin — last modified 2005-08-01 14:07

With adequately trained manpower, ICT-based skills can easily be passed on to learners at all levels. This project aims to train a critical mass of teachers in ICT-based skills and targets teachers on both pre-service (Teacher Training Institutes) and in-service (Senior Secondary Schools) programmes. The project has trained tens of thousands of Ugandan teachers since it was first launched in 2001.

Production of ICT-Based Educational Content (PIBEC) — by admin — last modified 2006-01-19 08:53

This project, which is run by Kyambogo University (KYU), is using ICTs to develop urgently needed educational materials for secondary schools and National Teachers’ Colleges (NTCs) throughout Uganda. Its main focus is on developing educational content. For example, it aims to create over 20 modules for all O-level subjects and place them on CD-ROMs so that they can be used by other NTCs and secondary schools. To make the project sustainable, large numbers of Kyambogo university staff as well as staff from the NTCs are being trained to produce their own ICT-based content for these educational materials. The goal is to make abridged versions of the finished products available as printed pamphlets, via a website, on CD-ROMs, and through intranet web servers.

ICT in Vocational education — by admin — last modified 2005-03-09 14:04

The projects contributes to modernisation of the vocational education sub-sector by introducing an ICT curriculum with delivery facilities to a first group of three technical colleges.

DistrictNet — by admin — last modified 2006-07-11 16:05

The District Net project stands for ICT for Rural Development. The project was implemented in 2002 by the Ministry of Local Governance in four districts, being Mbarara (west), Lira (north), Mbale (east) and Kayunga (central) with the hope that, if successful, it would be extended to other regions in the country. The project is to set out to improve communication links among the district headquarters, central government agencies and other stakeholders working with districts, and to address problems of inadequate ICT basic skills among the district staff. The MoLG started the District Net project to improve performance in the Local Governments by establishing functional data & information management and public communication systems for effective and efficient service delivery in decentralised governance.” Hence, this project was created under the slogan ‘ICT for Rural Development!’