Just a week ago it was kind of empty at UDOM and all we met in the hallways were either Deans of the different facilities of the university or Master students. Just this week starting Monday 19.10.2009 the first Semester in the university begins. Therefore it is packed with students who were registering them selves. Long students line waiting in front of the Bank to pay the university fee. Then they take the recite and line up in front of the registration window to hand in their applications with the bank recite which proves that they have already paid the fee. Though this is not enough for the folks who collect the applications, as they have to call the bank and confirm that the applicant has really paid. Once they get the confirmation the applicant lines up to have a picture taken of him to get his/her ID. All this is done manually so even if there has been planed power outages on Fridays (this has been the case for the last 4 weeks now, will get to that later), the folks at the registration window can still proceed with their work. This is something IBMers are working on, together with the UDOM programmers and Tutorial Assistances, to help creating a system to automat most of the manual work.
So, let me take you on a tour in (UDOM): An enormous project, which I believe, has been bought up to attract the people of Tanzania and make them move from the coast more to the middle. UDOM is a newly established public University located in the vicinity of Dodoma Municipality. It has all advantages to provide access to higher education to qualified students from all corners of Tanzania due to its geographical location being at the center of the country. It was established on the 28th March 2007. It is organized in Campus College mode that shall be self-sufficient in basic infrastructure and in provision of basic services to the student community in the Colleges. Currently it has three campus colleges:
1 The College of Informatics and Virtual Education --> Which we are currently working with.
2 The College of Humanities and Social Sciences
3 The College of Education
It is planned to establish other three colleges namely:
1 College of Health Sciences, 2 College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
3 College of Earth Sciences in a very near future
Pictures of UDOM:
PS: Most of UDOM is still under construction.
The Informatice college which is already in use.
I just loved this sign... :o)
A far view of part of UDOM which is still under construction.
Back to good old days... A class room still not complete...
As mentioned we are working together with the College of Informatics and Virtual Education for the following reasons:
The College of Informatics and Virtual Education is being envisioned to be the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Center of Excellence at the UDOM and at national level.
To fulfill its obligations as the ICT Center of Excellence, it is anticipated that the College shall be self sufficient in human resources and infrastructure including, classrooms, computer laboratories, lecture theatres, state-of-the-art research laboratories, campus backbone network as well and Internet connectivity with adequate bandwidth. The primary goal is to put in place a powerful supercomputer to be used by researchers in different disciplines all over Tanzania. It is also expected that the college will put in place state-of-the-art e-learning platform to deliver distance education in all fields.
This is where IBM comes in the game… IBM is creating plans, recommendations and running skills transferring to enable the college become self sufficient in the areas mentioned previously.
More to this in my next Blog
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