A recent edition of the Balancing Act, a free weekly e-letter on the Internet in Africa, carries a story about a Ugandan ICT Engineer, Wilson Kutegeka, who has has won the Microsoft Global ICT Award.It has been reported that Kutegeka beat off a challenge from over 2,000 professionals at the Microsoft Most Valuable Profesional (MVP)summit in Washington, US, to win the award. This award comes with a fully-sponsored trip to the US to attend the prize giving ceremony, as well as a $2500 shopping voucher. He is also entitled to the latest free Microsoft software and books.Congratulations to Wilson!!!
It is interesting to observe that Kutegeka is being awarded for developing the ClinicMaster Technology which is used at the Joint Clinical Research Centre to monitor patients on ARVs. ClinicMaster automates patients’ transactions and daily procedures in the clinic. This reminds me of my good friends at Baobab Health Partnership in Malawi who are also developing and implementing a similar system in Malawi. According to Gerry Douglas, the founder of Baobab Health Partnership, their system can be easily scaled up across an entire country, and perhaps an entire continent. I am, therefore, looking forward to seeing Baobab Health Partnership collaborating with Kutegeka’s Joint Clinical Research and other organizations with similar interests in order to speed up the development and implementation of these technologies in Africa .
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbackthat’s great news Mr. Clement. Nowadays, Africa become developer in technology and IT. I’m glad to know about the clicinmaster technology in your country. So, there is no again people who watch Africa with one eye only. Congratulation to Mr. Wilson Kutegeka!
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He makes all of us proud
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Way to go Wilson, it is indeed a great milestone to be achieving something like that. Break a leg mate.
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Kudos to Mr.Kutegeka for achieving the Microsoft Global ICT Award. As you said the collaborative effort from Clinicmaster technology and Baobab Health Partnership is much needed for the battle against HIV.
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This is news I love to read. Good for him. I hope he makes the most of it.
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If only all blogs or news sources held information like this rather than all the violence and negative news, just imagine how good the world’s going to be. Kudos!
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This is a positive news, news should be all positive, instead of global melt down, end of the world and all the bad news we are all sick of hearing
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Yes, this guy makes all of us proud. Sad to see the news networks giving him a blind eye. Besides him there is a lot of good news items in the African continent. But the news networks like to write about Mugabe, Darfur etc only.
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This is a very good news. As far as i am concerned, it is one of the toughest awards to win because of the numerous applications that are submitted each year.
About the technology, i think its a great initiative too. If all the hospitals and clinics start using this to monitor patients, also extend the system country wide to share a large database with other clinics, that’s going to be a great improvement in the sector.
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Great job.
It is a very good news that peoples are getting involved in this king of works
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Congratulations to Mr Kutegeka. most people in the west would be astounded!
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