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ICT Policy and Master Plan

SPIDER has supported the Ministry of Environment in Cambodia to develop an ICT Policy and Master Plan
Partners: 
Ministry of Enironment, Cambodia
Contact person: 
Lotta Rydström
Funding: 
SEK 320.000
Total cost: 
SEK 320.000
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Linux Certification Course

The Faculty of Computing & Information Technology at Makerere University (CIT) is working together with the Linux Users Group of Uganda (LUG-U) to establish a Linux certification training program targeted at the private sector IT professionals, students, and academics.

Summary of project objectives: 

Train at least 60 IT professionals in RedHat Linux

Partners: 
Makerere University, Uganda
Center for Development of Enterprise, Belgium
Contact person: 
Karoline Beronius
Funding: 
SEK 100.000
Total cost: 
€ 54.000
Project Duration: 
January, 2008 - October, 2008
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Capacity Building on effective use and management of ICT in the public sector in Tanzania

Considerable advances have been achieved in the rollout of ICT-based public services in many government units. However, the experience and surveys show that there is inadequate contribution of ICT investment to the improvement of the organizational performance and public services delivery due to, among others, the lack of proper strategic planning, use and management of ICT. This is also due to the lack of ICT management programme in most of learning institutions in Tanzania. As a result the few experts trained abroad are absorbed by the private sector due to the high pay.

The main focus of this project is to equip the management with essential knowledge and skills not only for strategically aligning business logic and ICT infrastructure but also champion and managing integration of ICT with government objectives and strategies.

The project addresses the need to match public administrations capacity to make full use on the management level, of the Tanzanian government expansion of and commitment to e-governance in recent years. 

Summary of project objectives: 

The project purpose is to establish a sustainable capacity building training programme on effective use and management of ICT within the public sector. Specifically it will;

  • Create a standard curriculum and training materials for current and future training needs on ICT management.
  • Create awareness to increase level of understanding amongst IT and business management on the potential of ICT to transform the public services delivery process.
    Produce well trained management personnel on ICT management.
  • Equip and guide the public sector management to develop and use standard approaches to strategic management of ICT in the Public sector.
Partners: 
University of Dar es Salaam Computing Center, Tanzania
Life Academy, Sweden
Contact person: 
Daniel Berggren
Webpage: 
http://www.cemips.ucc.co.tz/
Funding: 
SEK 3.100.000
Project Duration: 
January, 2009 - December, 2010
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ICT-based in-service teacher education for secondary school teachers in Tanzania

Tanzania has embarked on enhancing the availability and quality of secondary education. Through an earlier Sida supported project, necessary data infrastructure has been installed at 32 government teacher’s training colleges with a purpose to quickly train a large number of teachers, mostly in-service and at distance through the utilization of ICT tools.

Summary of project objectives: 

The overall purpose of this project is to enhance the performance of the secondary teachers by
providing training on pedagogy and subject specialized education. The teachers will be
trained through ICT-based short courses which will be custom tailored to the needs of
teachers in particular subject areas.

The specific project objectives include:

  •  Equip teachers with basic ICT skills to be able to benefit from the potential of ICT in
    teaching and learning.
  • Develop models for communication and distribution of learning material for different
    technical environments (broadband, VSAT, mobile phones, CD/DVD, memory cards
    etc).
  • Support teachers to handle the challenges of using e-resources through knowledge
    sharing, networking and collaboration for improving teaching.
  • Promote equitable access to educational resources through the strategic application of
    ICT.
  • Exploit the interactive potential of ICT in the provision of modern education theory
    and practice via distance education programmes.
  • Create strategic partnerships for a sustainable ICT programme through collaboration
    with the public, private and community sectors.
  • Establish a school network system for the collaborative sharing of educational
    resources and stakeholder participation.
  • Encourage head teachers, teachers and students to be involved in the development of
    applications and to use ICT meaningfully to enhance the teaching-learning process.
  • Encourage and facilitate the use of the Internet as a research and communication tool
    among students, parents, teachers, principals, other MoEVT officials and members of
    the community.
Partners: 
Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, Tanzania
Open University, Tanzania
Mid Sweden University
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
For more information about m-learning visit: http://m-e-learning.blogspot.com/
Contact person: 
Daniel Berggren
Webpage: 
http://sites.google.com/site/ictbites/
Funding: 
SEK 2.700.000
Project Duration: 
April, 2008 - December, 2009
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ICT for improving agriculture in Rwanda

The aim of the project is to introduce ICT in the agricultural extension in Rwanda in such a way that all the involved actors in agriculture will be able to make the right decisions about relevant projects and come up with the best possible solutions in the field of agriculture.

Partners: 
Rwandan Information Technology Authority (RITA)
Contact person: 
Caroline Wamala
Funding: 
SEK 1.311.000
Project Duration: 
July, 2008 - November, 2010
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To Build a Compute Intensive Research Infrastructure

This proposal is a continuation of joint research carried out over the last 4 years. The project will establish a local minigrid incorporating high performance computing resources and extend the grid over the interuniversity backbone network to at least two other local universities which will then be linked to the Swedish cluster. Initial performance evaluation would be done for specific characteristics of the local minigrid against features that are peculiar to a county like SL. Following the successful completion of the initial phase, we expect to start detailed investigations on two fronts: algorithm design for selected classes of problems, especially heuristic optimizations targeting the grid, and, secondly on middleware design for the so called OGSA. The system will then provide a worthwhile computational resource, backed by a knowledgable local staff that could form the basis for a significant enhancement in computational research in many areas. The development cluster will be moved from UU to UCSC early in 2006. Starting with software development on these local facilities, large scale computational science research in Sri Lanka could if necessary make use of even more computing power by accesing links to computational grids outside the country.
Partners: 
Uppsala University
Contact person: 
Sverker Holmgren
Funding: 
SEK 100.000
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