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ItemA prisoner information management system : Case study of Kasangati prison(Makerere University, 2023)In this study, a prisoner information management system was implemented for the prisons of Uganda, to easily track and access prisoners information from different geographical locations This is because most prisons in Uganda still use the traditional system of pen and papers, to keep track of prisoner records. This system takes long to finish a single transaction and this has led to loss of information of some cases (crimes files), insecurity and data redundancy. Similarly, some cases have been reported where some prison staff connives with clients (victims) to change and hide some information or files hence leading to compromising the evidence of the matter. This has consequently resulted in time wastage to handle cases, increased corruption and insecurity of important files hence making the whole process costly. Also, when reports are needed especially about prisoners, it takes a long time and, therefore, makes it hard for Prison Management to take urgent decisions. This has created a lot of loopholes in the system because there is no tracking and/or monitoring of the information available in the different Departments and there are no security measures in place to safe guard the available information. This necessitated automating the system to make it more efficient and effective. There was close study of the existing manual file-based system that was in use, it was compared to the proposed system. A prototype of a proposed system was developed to ease data access, security and retrieval for instant report production by the prison management. The prototype was developed using MySQL database, PHP, CSS, JavaScript and HTML.
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ItemE-complaint reporting system a case study of Makerere Police Station(Makerere University, 2022)This is an Electronic Crime Reporting System software which is well accessible to the general public and the Uganda police. The major problem this system is solving is delay in reporting crimes as the issue of reporting crime has been a challenge especially in the cities like Kampala, Gulu, Jinja, Mbarara due to the fact that sometimes crimes are committed mainly at night when most police stations are far from the crime scene. Thus letting the culprit escape before the crimes are reported. This has become one of the biggest problems to the Uganda Police in managing and keeping law and order for the general public. It has also made the general public to lose interest in reporting crimes. Therefore we have come up with this system so that people can report crimes at anytime from anywhere within the city of Kampala and hopefully other cities as well.
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ItemA land search information system. A case of land information systems in UGANDA(Makerere University, 2022-10)In this study, a land Search Information System was implemented for the people of Uganda, to enable them easily, make land title searches and also get informed on issues concerning land. This is because there is a high rise of land conflicts in the country which has raised due to the fact that people are not well educated on matters concerning land and also making land title searches today in the current systems is slow and in- efficient thus it takes a lot of time which creates more room for illegalities like title forgery which results into a lot of fraud during the process of land purchase which in the end results into land conflicts since par- ties will end up fighting each other claiming to both be having land titles attached to the same piece of land In this study we used both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Data was collected using interviews, observation, documentation review and focus group discussion which methods were used for data collec- tion from 30 respondents and also, we had to get sensitive data from the ministry of lands that was to be used during system integration. In objective one, we collected both primary and secondary data, which was analyzed using excel spread- sheets and the user requirements were determined. In objective two, the system was designed using data flow diagrams (DFDs) and enhanced entity relationship diagrams (ERDs). In objective three, the system was developed using technologies such as React Js, NodeJS, Bootstrap, CSS, HTML, JavaScript and MySQL among others. In objective four, the system was tested and validated. The findings of the study are of great significance to researchers, Makerere University and Ministry of lands housing and urban develop- ment.
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ItemAutomation of ticket issuance system(Makerere University, 2022)In this era of science and technology, mobile applications are used widely and used in each and every step of modern businesses. Unluckily, developing countries like Uganda are far behind in using the internet or web based applications. This project will develop a “Mobile Application for purchasing tickets for football matches” in Uganda, and to be more specific, it’s to automate the manual native ticket issuance system. Application users will have to register their details for logging or accessing the news page. The implementation of the system required will use Flutter and Firebase. The entire team will work together to develop a mobile application for the ticket match processing. In future developments, the application will efficiently include more Ugandan teams and stadiums, developing the servers, payment protection and many features. The research will include payment solutions available for such a system could use to accept customer payments. The project will take the best feature of existing online paying websites and improve them and will implement new feature that it is felt will improve customers experience with the site.
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ItemTool for locating printing services in Makerere University( 2022-11)Information technology industry is one of the fast growing sectors in the world making it more vital. This is because it has simplified tasks being done and helped find solutions to a variety of problems within different societies. Printing is an essential service in a setting like Makerere University, this is because students on a daily basis do course works and other related activities like reports, proposals among others, all these need to be always printed to be presented for either marking or evaluation by their respective lecturers, however many students especially the new entrants have faced a very big challenge in locating some of these printery service centers. This is mostly because most printery stations have no clear names and directions to easily locate them. This report therefore presents a solution to this problem faced by many first time Makerere University students when searching for printery services within the premises of the university. To come up with this solution, we used qualitative methods such as interviews to collect data from the printery station owners. Which we analyzed critically, and used the data along with rapid application development methodology to implement our proposed solution. The proposed solution was successfully implemented and the use of this application will heavily benefit the students with easier navigation for printery services wherever they are within the university. This report is divided into 6 chapters where the first contains the project introduction, the second contains the literature review, the third contains the methodology, the fourth contains the findings, system analysis and design details, the fifth contains the project implementation, testing and validation and lastly, the sixth with the conclusions, recommendations and future research.