Department of Innovation and Software Development - Makerere University
DISD focuses on the growth of software conception, design and development capacity at FCIT. We believe that ICT has an important role to play in development, and that local capacity to build and exploit ICT innovations is critical. Software, as a key foundation of ICT, is a critical part of any ICT growth plans.
National Software Incubation Centre
The `National Software Incubation Centre' (NSIC) provides an opportunity to young graduates (software engineers) to give birth to their dream software projects and nurture them carefully in the initial critical phase. The graduates will be allowed to use the facility for one year and in special cases they can be allowed more time but not exceeding two years in total.
The centre is being set up to initially provide a training environment for prospective software engineers and will be open to graduates of recognized Universities working on software development for both national use and export purposes. The idea being that the prospective software engineer does not need to make any investments by creating his/ her own set-up but instead will use the space and facilities of the incubation centre to gain skills needed to be a lead software engineer in a Software Company.