By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard.
Kampala, Uganda: According to Phillip Mulindwa the CEO of MPUNGU-an ICT based Company, they are developing a learning platform to help young adults learn how to effectively make use of ICT at their place of work, schools and as a hobby.
Speaking to Umoja Standard News Agency, Phillip reveals that there is a big shortage of computers in schools so students cannot effectively access computers. ‘Basing on Ministry of Education statistics, one computer is used by 14 students so if it is a computer laboratory we are talking about, of 14 students only 4 can effectively use it effectively and its an effect to the other ten as they will lack emerging ICT innovations.
He revealed that there is a time he hired a young qualified girl to be her…… assistant, assigned her a task but regularly dodged him little did he know that she lacked ICT skills, they part ways and hired another one only to discover it was the same problem. ‘I realized that the problem was systematic, that’s when i thought that it is high time i came on, use experience i have, train these Ugandans to suit in the fourth generation needs of ICT.
It is against this background that MPUNGU thought of creating a platform with relevant up to date information such that young adults can interact with ICT and get computer skills, it is a training in sense.
“We shall have a subject matter, develop a case study around. This will involve us using about 10 features which students will practice with, which will help to solve the problem but in addition to that, we shall have a free training this month on Gender Based Violence and Accounting”. Phillip said.
He cited an example of Gender-based violence where they will go deep into key performance indicators so as they extract information from a pool of Data as well learning the subject matter GBV which falls in humanities, it is that approach MPUNGU is going to use that will propel people to learn ICT faster and better.
Mpungu is to have a training for about 2-3 weeks.
MPUNGU is going to create a snerio where there is a school that has a person that runs accounts (school bursar), Head of academic affairs (Director of Studies) and Administrator Manager (who handles all the business), on top of them there is a CEO and Board of Directors.
These people will be acting in the way, orders will be coming from the Board to CEO and from CEO to these people who will be trainees and all the people below will also be trainees say, human resource manager, admin management, finance management, sports and they shall train them on how they can report.
“The approach we are going to use is that may be in a cohort, we shall have 50 people who will form administration of the school and then we will make that rotational for about three months and at the end one will be well versed with ICT and reporting skills”. Said Phillip.