College of Computing & IS, Makerere University
Incubate your Software Idea into a Business

1. Build and sell a mobile app
2. Solve a business problem
3. Provide information people will pay for

Finalists – make your project into a business

Join the Makerere Software Business Incubation Programme

Applications open

1. Open to current students and recent graduates of any public university
2. Team applications (groups of 3 or 4) are preferred
3. You may also apply as an individual
4. Each team must cover these skills with its members: software development, marketing & sales,  project planning and execution, basics of business operations, fluency in writing
5. Online applications only - at http://cis.mak.ac.ug/sbi … you will need to supply
   1. For each person
      1. Name, email, phone, CGPA
      2. Current course or occupation
   2. Your proposed business concept in 60-100 words
6. Up to 70 teams will be admitted  from across Uganda
7. NO admission fees

This programme will run together with the new Microsoft Innovation Center at the Makerere University College of Computing and IS …

• 1. 1. business entrepreneurship
     2. mobile application development
     3. business plan development
     4. business concept marketing
  Expert training and team assignments in
  2. Programme runs from November 2011 to April 2012
  3. Certificate of achievement for all programme graduates

Call for papers:

theme: Mapping the progress of digital scholarship and curation in Africa: measuring Africa’s readiness and progress
Africa is on the path of embracing new technologies, in government, academia and business. There is also significant investment in the laying of terrestrial and extra-terrestrial networks in the African data market. All this attests to the fact that Africa is making some progress towards world class digital scholarship and curation. During the 4th African Conference for digital scholarship and curation it was highlighted that technology plays a fundamental role in enabling data curation, scholarship and collaborations in building repositories of data and knowledge. However, there has been little effort to determine the ‘hotspots’ of such progress on the African continent. This conference therefore is an attempt to map and showcase the progress of digital scholarship and curation initiatives and to measure the readiness of the African continent to embrace the next generation of digital researchers.  
Authors are invited to submit abstracts for papers linked to the main theme and subthemes of the conference. All abstracts will be peer reviewed and selected papers will be published in a high impact international refereed journal.
Abstracts and proposals for papers, posters and workshops should be submitted before 30th November 2011.  Only documents in electronic format will be considered.
Please submit to:
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Conference Dates and Venue
Dates: 20th – 23rd June 2012
Venue: Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda)
Conference theme
Main Theme: Mapping the progress of digital scholarship and curation in Africa: measuring Africa’s readiness and progress

Sub-Themes
Open Access Initiatives and Legal Policies

• Open Scholarship Initiatives in Africa
• Development of Institutional Repositories in Africa
• Legislation and open data
• Ethical issues and personal data
• Tensions between maintaining quality and openness

Preservation and Digitization for Education and Learning

• Capturing and preservation of Indigenous Knowledge
• Digitization of Archeological gems in Africa
• Strategic Institutional alignments for the next generation of data preservation and curation
• UNESCO: Memory of World programmes in Africa
• Education and training of the next generation of African Curators: Opportunities and Challenges
• eLearning collectionsInformation seeking behaviours in the digitized world
• The impact of digitization in schools in Africa
• Collaboration initiatives
• Mobile learning

Mobile Learning in the Digital Media Era

• Connectivity and its role in learning
• Mobile devices and their applications
• Mobile services
• Mobile users and their needs

Working with research data

• Data quality
• Data citation
• Open vs sensitive or private data
• Using open data: examples of enablers, barriers and success stories
• Developing new metrics for open data
• Linked data, open data, closed data and provenance
• Scale issues in the management of sensitive data
• Using open data: examples of enablers, barriers and success stories
• Curation of mixed data collections,
• Gathering evidence for benefits of data sharing for African scholars
• Building capacity for the effective management, sharing and reuse of open data

Infrastructure

• Connectivity in Africa: Mapping the impact of regional sea cables and terrestrial backbone fibers
• Technical and organisational solutions for data security

Activities

• Paper presentations
• Poster presentations
• Exhibitions
• Workshops

Paper/ Abstracts
Paper length:                           Maximum number of words inclusive of references: 10 pages
Abstract length:                       Maximum number of words 500 words
Citation format:                       Harvard referencing
Format of the paper:               Introduction (providing context of digital scholarship/curation), research problem, methodology, findings and discussion, implications, conclusions, and recommendations
Case Studies:                          Case studies, success stories but also lessons learnt are encouraged in the papers

Key deadlines

• Submission of abstracts by prospective paper presenters: 30th November 2011
• Selection and acceptance of abstracts: 15 December 2011
• Deadline for full paper submission by presenters: 30th January 2012
• Review of papers completed: 30th March 2012
• Draft programme released: early February 2012
• Presentation files submitted: 1st May 2012
• Submission for posters: 30th January 2012
• Submission for workshops: 30th January 2012

Target audience

• Scientists and researchers
• Research managers
• Educationists
• Information scientists, librarians and other information professionals
• ICT infrastructure service providers and managers and telecommunication services
• System administrators and engineers
• System developers
• Information Technology Managers
• Graduate students
• Spatial and other data analysis
• E-space analysts
• Technology stewards
• Archivists, records managers, curators
• Policy makers- in tertiary education, science and technology centers
• Young professionals who need gain exposure in the new work environment, and
• Seasoned professionals wanting to remain relevant

This year’s International Conference on Computing and ICT Research (ICCIR) will take place at Protea hotel, between 5th and 7th August 2012.

For details follow the link below

http://cit.mak.ac.ug/iccir.

Important Dates/ Deadlines:

(Authors can submit papers even if they did not submit abstracts)

More information:

College of Computing & Information Sciences, Makerere University ,
P.O.Box 7062 Kampala,
Uganda, East Africa.

Tel: 256-41-540628
Fax: 256-41-540620
Mob: (+256)71 540628
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Physical Address:
Plot 56, Makerere University Road,
Wandegeya Kampala, Uganda.

Organising Committee
1. Dr. Jude Lubega, Chairperson, Makerere University | jlubega[at]cit.mak.ac.ug
2. Mr. Michael Niyitegeka, Makerere University | mniyitegeka[at]cit.mak.ac.ug
3. Ms. Dora Bampangana, Makerere University | bdora[at]cit.ac.ug
4. Ms. Maria Muzaaki, Makerere University | pr[at]cis.mak.ac.ug
5. Ms. Consolate Komugisha, Makerere University | ckomugisha[at]cit.mak.ac.ug