Linux Certification Course

The Faculty of Computing & Information Technology at Makerere University (CIT) is working together with the Linux Users Group of Uganda (LUG-U) to establish a Linux certification training program targeted at the private sector IT professionals, students, and academics. The main purpose of this program is to help foster the adoptation of the Open Source Linux Operating System and other open source applications within industry and academia in Uganda.

In order to achieve the above objectives, CIT is going to leverage prior work by Centre for Development of Enterprise and Sida. This initial session will act as a training promotional program, to introduce the program to the private sector and academia, as well as a training of trainers for future sessions. It is envisaged that subsequent training sessions, to be held at least quarterly, will be funded by fees collected from trainees.

Summary of project objectives: 

Train at least 60 IT professionals in RedHat Linux

Partners: 
Makerere University, Uganda
Center for Development of Enterprise, Belgium
Contact person: 
Karoline Beronius
Funding: 
SEK 100.000
Total cost: 
€ 54.000
Project Duration: 
January, 2008 - October, 2008
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