Undergrad Exams.

Well, well -a few days ago, on Friday 23rd of May 2oo8, I did the last of my bachelors final exams, that was (Database Programmming) and finished at about 1500 hours GMT.

Huh, its a big deal, you know. My undergraduate career is coming to its dignified end.

That now leaves me with one major task required before I can graduate -The final Project.
We are`required to do a study in our choicest subject areas in the IT field and then apply the learnt skills, like (programming, networking, internet technologies, software engineering, mobile computing) and so on... to create computer-based solutions for identified problem(s).

In my case, its not just a final project, its an opportunity to contribute and handle a few things I would like to change. Am doing a project in E-commerce. Its an electronic commerce application to enable the fashion industry take their business online.
Electronic commerce is mostly about being able to buy or sell things using the internet as a medium, and this has been lacking in Uganda inspite of the change of times and proliferation of internet.

The idea of siting infront of a computer at home or anywhere and send orders for items from a store in town and they are delivered to your doorstep in the next half hour truely inspired me on this project.
The concept is that the costs involved in physically going to the stores to get what you want can be done away with, if you can access the store online. My task literary is to 'put the store online' where consumers can access it, and then create an electronic money transfer function in the back end to process payments for purchased items direclty from the consumer's bank account, without you moving from your seat.
The value addition here is that; if you know what you want, that knowledge should be an incentive to your time and finances and therefore you shouldnt suffer the same fate as some one who doesnt.
What you want is a click away, not a mile of burning fuel and being upset by queues at banks to withdraw money.
Thats it, stay at home and maximise relationships while our comperised systems work their way through stores and bank accounts in a matter of nano seconds, to do work for you that would take a lot of time and hussle.

In the broadest sense, this kind of approach to business, if adopted massively by Ugandan businesses, can help reduce traffic jam on Kampala roads and remove the barriers of time and distance from the consumers' list of worries.
So am on that one right now, and its exciting.

Otherwise if everything goes according to the University plan, graduation is set for some time in
January 2009. I dont know why it takes MAKUNIKA [Makerere University Kampala] such a long time to gradute off students who have finished, but I can guess thats because they lack computerised systems for processing and integrating students' information fast enough.
Actually some colleagues in IT and Computer Science have done Projects to that effect, I dont get why those applications are never put to use to speed up university-to-students services.

Anyways, thats not my problem, thats the university's problem. My concern right now is to avoid the unemployment boogey that comes crashing into the lives of fresh graduates from university.
Record has it that in order to get a job anywhere, they will require you to have minimum of 3 hundred years of experience in that area. And here I am, with 000 years of field experience, and yet Ihave a right to work.
So am contacting possible employers to fit me in their programs [at no payment] so that I can get the 3 years of experience to qualify for my first real job. Huh, its funny isnt it?