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A web-based system for reporting and creating awareness about social media threats and crime in Uganda
(2023-01-06)The Internet is increasingly becoming a significant tool for social, economic, and human rights development in Uganda and Africa at large. Average citizens, human rights activists, civil society organizations, media houses, ... -
A framework for information management in E-agriculture
(Makerere University, 2022-12-20)Agriculture is a vital sector in a developing economy like Uganda’s. ICTs have been used in this sector to avail information and to support different information based agricultural processes in what is called electronic ... -
A Link Fabrication Attack Mitigation Approach (LIFAMA) for software defined networks
(Makerere University, 2022-11-17)In software defined networks (SDN), the controller is a critical resource yet it is a potential target for attacks once compromised. The conventional Open Flow Discovery Protocol (OFPD) used in building the topology view ... -
Extraction content recommender model for a personalised e-learning environment based on learner’s course assessment feeds
(Makerere University, 2022-11-24)E-learning, also known as online learning or electronic learning, is the acquisition of knowledge through digital technologies and media. In most cases, it refers to a course, program or degree delivered completely online. ... -
Detecting money laundering using a pattern matching approach based on Rete Algorithm
(Makerere University, 2020-09)Money laundering is the criminal practice of filtering funds gotten from illegal activities through a series of transactions so that the funds appear as proceeds from legal activities. Money laundering is a diverse, ... -
A novel model to strengthen researcher-farming community engagement
(Makerere University, 2022-04-01)Researcher engagement is said to improve collaboration between two parties, hence, improving research outputs. Despite the enormous agricultural research studies, there has been low uptake and ownership of research outputs ... -
Enhancing the DCFM node isolation attack mechanism for OLSR protocol in Android MANETs
(Makerere University, 2017-11-23)Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) have recently gained wide adoption by their ability for communication amongst users without infrastructure for instance Wireless Mesh Community Networks that are setup not to rely on ... -
A mobile fetal health monitoring device
(Makerere University, 2022-03-22)Maternal and infant mortality is unacceptably high in many parts of the developing world. About 830 women die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related complications around the world every single day. The world health ... -
A model for adoption of information systems for antenatal healthcare practice in Wakiso District
(Makerere University, 2021)Globally, information systems have become ubiquitous and shown a potential to transform and benefit antenatal care delivery to expectant mothers in Uganda. The benefits associated with this include accessibility to information ... -
Developing a framework for measuring IT project success in developing countries : a case study of Uganda
(Makerere University, 2021)Over the past years, measuring project success had been concentrated on the performance of project management more especially on cost, time and quality but not considering product operation and involvement of the clients ... -
Predicting infectitious disease density in urban settings using Convolutional Neural Networks
(Makerere University, 2021)Rapid and unplanned urbanization is said to pose serious public health challenges to developing countries due to inequality in socio-economic wellbeing, decent housing, etc. Consequently, differential disease risk is ... -
A study on application level monitoring of container-based microservices
(Makerere University, 2022)Microservice application monitoring has its proven benefits i.e. detecting service failure early, discover system bottlenecks, managing complexity of the microservice application, optimisation of system resources at runtime. ... -
Automated intestinal parasite detection in stool samples using custom convolutional neural networks
(Makerere University, 2022-03-10)Intestinal parasitic infections can cause serious health problems with relatively high infections in the developing world. Microscopy of stool remains the gold standard method for the diagnosis of intestinal parasites. ... -
Hybridizing machine learning and static malware detection using the PE header
(Makerere University, 2021-11-23)Cyber crime cases currently involve demanding payment after infecting a victimized organization’s computers with ransomware or impairing operations through a distributed denial-of-service attack which significantly impacts ... -
Detection of WannaCry Ransomware using machine learning techniques
(Makerere University, 2022-03-16)As the modern society embraces the digital age, there are powerful threats like malware that are developing daily and they continue to impact a large number of computing devices. Malware is malicious software that are ... -
A localized geometrical alignment technique for updating geo-spatial databases
(Makerere University, 2022)Spatial data capture is increasingly easier due to reduction in cost and technologies. This has resulted into many players capturing data at different times for the same location, who often use different methods, instruments ... -
Towards a persuasive technology for electricity theft reduction in Uganda
(Springer LNICST 250, 2017)Technology for changing attitude and behaviour, known as persuasive technology, has been applied to solve many challenges, ranging from personal health and finance, to environmental sustainability. In this paper, ... -
Designing persuasive technologies for societal benefit: a persuasive technology for fighting electricity theft in Kampala, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2021-07)Electricity theft is a major challenge for electricity utilities world over, not sparing Umeme, Uganda. Although, the utility invests heavily into electricity theft reduction measures, some of these measures are frequently ... -
Electricity theft in Kampala and potential ICT solutions
(SPRINGER LNICST 147, 2014)Electricity theft is the main source of non-technical losses in electricity distribution utilities. This paper presents data from an ongoing research to study the causes of electricity theft in Kampala, Uganda and people’s ... -
Assessment of records management practices at All Saints Cathedral, Kampala
(Makerere University, 2022-03-28)A study was carried out to assess records management practices at All Saints Cathedral, Kampala. The objectives of the study were; To establish the existing church records at ASCK; to find out how church records are ...
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