Makerere University acknowledges that funds received from SIDA under the bilateral Research Cooperation enable Ugandan public universities to conduct impactful research, research capacity strengthening, institutional advancement, generate knowledge and promote research uptake for regional development, which is partly supported as part of the EDCTP programme supported by the European Union.

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382-2014 Project title: Upgrading and strengthening the University-wide GIS Centre

Research Phase

Research Phase: 
Phase 4

Geographic Information Science (GIScience) is an emerging interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the nature of geographic phenomena and information. It attempts to provide theoretical foundations for modeling of space, time and process and for development of geospatial technologies including geographic information systems (GIS).

The GIS Centre at Makerere University is increasingly becoming a hotspot for GIS teaching and research in Uganda and the East African region..  The primary objective of this project is to develop the existing GIS laboratory into a state of the art GIS laboratory that links to all the GIS units at Makerere University through an efficient and effective sharing of spatial data, personnel, GIS hardware and software.

This link should extend GIS services to other colleges and Government departments that are potential users of GIS/Remote Sensing, but are constrained by inadequate personnel, spatial data, hardware and software to carry out geospatial technological related trainings and research.

The success of this program will provide:1) state of the art GIS laboratory 2) critical mass for stimulating excellent research in GIScience, and 3) experience in the management of research networks.

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