This year, Microsoft invited students around the world to harness their creative energy, their technical know-how and most of all, their personal passion to take part in an urgent mission. With the United Nations Millennium Development Goals as their guiding light, students used the power of technology to help solve some of the toughest problems facing the world today.
This year, Microsoft invited students around the world to harness their creative energy, their technical know-how and most of all, their personal passion to take part in an urgent mission. With the United Nations Millennium Development Goals as their guiding light, students used the power of technology to help solve some of the toughest problems facing the world today.
Five (5) projects developed by students from the Faculty of Computing and IT, Makerere University, participated in the Microsoft Regional Imagine Cup 2009 Competition. In total, 17 projects competed from seven Eastern African Region countries. The event was held in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 5, 2009. All the five (5) projects from Makerere were ranked among the best ten (10), one project qualified for the World Competition scheduled for July 2009 in Egypt while another took the second position. The overall winner came from Ethiopia. Below is the list of team names and their positions in the competition: Details in pdf