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Center for Innovations and Professional Skills Development - Makerere Univ Makerere University, Center for Innovations and Professional Skills Development (CiPSD) is operating under the College of Computing and Information Science

Makerere University, Center for Innovations and Professional Skills Development (CiPSD) is operating under the College of Computing and Information Sciences and houses a number of business units including;
• Professional Skills Development/ Short Courses (Cisco Academy Courses, Microsoft, Oracle, ICDL etc),
• Software Business Incubation (SBI) and Software Development,
• Microsoft Innovations C

enter (MIC- Uganda),
• The Tele-Education (Amity & IGNOU Programs) under the Pan African E-network project, International Testing Center and
• 3D Animation School – Digimation UK
• ITU Center of Excellence

Core Values
CiPSD in the pursuit of its mission is be guided by the following core values:
1. Commitment
2. Transparency
3. Quality
4. Respect
5. Responsiveness

CiPSD’s strategy is to offer services that are responsive to the needs of the community, that yield better service delivery and also provide new avenues of entrepreneurial skills. This is achieved through tailoring programmes towards what the industry lacks as skills in the employed staff and software solutions. The Center has been at the forefront of assisting the Government and other organizations to build capacity of employees in ICT skills and personal development. In addition CiPSD provides technical training to regular undergraduate students in a bid to improve their skills competencies in various areas of their specialization during the 10 weeks recess term. Basic Info
The Center was setup in December 2011 in-line with the established college structures and in the pursuit of four motivations for the establishment of Colleges, I.e; a) optimal utilization of resources, b) reduction of operational costs, c) accelerating resource mobilization and d) reducing bureaucracy , hence improving decision making.

ICT Short courses on offer starting October 2nd and 4th OCT. Please refer to the jpg attached for details..........
11/09/2023

ICT Short courses on offer starting October 2nd and 4th OCT. Please refer to the jpg attached for details..........

08/09/2023

The College of Computing and IS has a Centre for Innovations and Professional Skills Development (CIPSD) that offers short professional ICT courses.
These courses appeal to a diverse range of learners ranging from secondary, university, and postgraduate students to the working professional.
They vary in duration from one to six months and are delivered at different time intervals i.e. morning, afternoon, evening, weekend classes, or as boot camps.

Upon completion students will earn a certificate of attendance or competence.
https://news.mak.ac.ug/2023/08/cocis-cipsd-short-courses-oct-dec-2023-and-jan-2024-intakes/

28/09/2022

OPEN DAY AT CoCIS

Short ICT courses available at the College of Computing and IS
21/09/2022

Short ICT courses available at the College of Computing and IS

Multimedia 2D and 3D short courses
21/09/2022

Multimedia 2D and 3D short courses

This project which is funded by the Research and Innovations Fund of Makerere University is a COVID-19 surveillance and ...
01/03/2021

This project which is funded by the Research and Innovations Fund of Makerere University is a COVID-19 surveillance and early detection system “COVID-19 Rapid Response” a mobile and web-based application that will enable citizens to report suspicious cases of COVID-19 at their convenience and also assist health experts to monitor COVID-19 discharged patients.

From the platform citizens are able to report COVID-19 suspicious cases with symptoms, the health experts on the other hand are able to assess the information received and respond accordingly. The health experts are also in position to monitor discharged patients of COVID-19 to prevent new infections in the community.

The seminar will take place from 10:00am – 12:00pm on Thursday, 4th March 2021 and shall be an online based event.

Please commit to attending this dissemination seminar by registering using the following link below;

https://forms.gle/RiofpS2aJtLK1751A

REGISTRATION for COVID-19 Rapid Response System Dissemination Seminar on 4th Thursday March 2021
This project which is funded by the Research and Innovations Fund of Makerere University is a COVID-19 surveillance and early detection system “COVID-19 Rapid Response” a mobile and web-based application that will enable citizens to report suspicious cases of COVID-19 at their convenience and also assist health experts to monitor COVID-19 discharged patients.
https://forms.gle/RiofpS2aJtLK1751A

DeepMind supports the establishment of master’s scholarships to study artificial intelligence at Makerere University.
27/02/2021

DeepMind supports the establishment of master’s scholarships to study artificial intelligence at Makerere University.

NEW INTAKE @ COCIS FOR CCA, CCNA(Cisco), IC3, ICDL, IT Essentials, Web design, CYBER SECURITY etc........ STARTING 8th M...
27/02/2021

NEW INTAKE @ COCIS FOR CCA, CCNA(Cisco), IC3, ICDL, IT Essentials, Web design, CYBER SECURITY etc........ STARTING 8th MARCH. APPLY TODAY and COME VALIDATE YOUR ICT SKILLS

NEW INTAKE @ COCIS FOR CCNA(Cisco), IC3, ICDL, IT Essentials, Web design, CYBER SECURITY etc........ STARTING 15th FEB. APPLY TODAY and COME VALIDATE YOUR ICT SKILLS

Address

Makerere Univesity, College Of Computing And Interstate, Pool Road
Kampala

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 17:00
18:00 - 20:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
18:00 - 20:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
18:00 - 20:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
18:00 - 20:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00
18:00 - 20:00
Saturday 09:00 - 13:00

Telephone

+256392000180

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