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Confronting HIV/AIDS in a South African village: the impact of health-seeking behaviour
(Informa Healthcare, 2007-10)
Much social science research on HIV/AIDS focuses on its impact within affected communities and how people try to cope with its consequences. Based on fieldwork in rural South Africa, this article shows ways in which the ...
ICT-enabled Services: a critical analysis of the opportunities and challenges in Uganda
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)
In this paper we analyze the potential for ICT enabled services by Ugandan firms to both clients within Uganda and outside Uganda. We highlight the opportunities and challenges of providing ICT-enabled services by Ugandan ...
Mobile Payments: A Comparison between Philippine and Ugandan Contexts
(International Information Management Corporation, 2008)
This paper maintains that mobile phone payments present a significant opportunity to integrate more users within Uganda's financial system. Besides enabling services that can improve the performance of small businesses, ...
An evaluation framework for large-scale ontology-based biomedical data integrated systems
(Makerere University, 2009-07)
There has been an emergence of various ontologies describing data from either the clinical or biological domains. Associated with this has been the development of biomedical ontologies using various strategies to integrate ...
A flexible biomedical ontology selection tool
(2009-10)
The wide adoption and reuse of existing biomedical ontologies available in various libraries is limited by the lack of suitable tools with metrics for their evaluation by both naive users and expert ontologists. Existing ...
M-learning: The educational use of mobile communication devices
(Fountain publishers kampala, 2007)
This is a position paper which explores the use of mobile communication devices in teaching and learning. We especially undertake a crosswalk around the fast evolving field of mobile learning with a view of positioning it ...
A Comparison of Service Oriented Architecture with other advances in Software Architectures
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2007)
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) allows software systems to possess desirable architecture attributes such as loose coupling, platform independence, inter-operability, reusability, agility and so on. Despite its wide ...
A visualization framework for discovering prepaid mobile subscriber usage patterns
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2007)
Telecommunications operators in developing countries are faced with a problem of knowing their prepaid subscriber usage patterns. They have a challenge of reducing prepaid churn and maximizing the lifetime value of their ...
Translating transliterations
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2009)
Translating new entity names is important for improving performance in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as Machine Translation (MT) and Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR). Usually, transliteration ...
Using Mobile Technology and Services for Sustainable Development in Africa
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)
Due to the explosive growth of mobile and wireless technologies and services in Africa, a number of questions are being raised by academicians, technology professionals, industry and policy makers on how it is going to ...