Browsing by Author "Mwesigwa, Ezra"

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    College Electronic Voting Environment (CEVE)
    (IEEE, 2015) Mwesigwa, Ezra; Bagarukayo, Emily
    The traditional usage of the pen and ballot paper to elect new student leaders at the College of Computing and Information Sciences (CoCIS), Makerere University has been rendered ineffective due to various recurring errors. Long tedious queues, ballot stuffing allegations, voting multiple times, high operational expense, depict the voting process at CoCIS. The study therefore aimed at developing an electronic voting environment to address these challenges. We reviewed literature and studied the current voting process to attain the user and system requirements. The key design tools were Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), Context Diagrams and use case diagrams. Through extensive user involvement and research, we developed and implemented using Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) and Structured Query Language (MySQL), tested and validated a fully functioning system to solve the challenges. The College Electronic Voting Environment (CEVE) automates the current manual voting process such that voters register and cast votes online from anywhere as long as they have internet access.
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    ‘Jobs256’ Mobile App Linking Job Seekers to Job Opportunities
    (IST-Africa Week Conference, 2017) Bagarukayo, Emily; Mwesigwa, Ezra
    There is a challenge of unemployment among the youth in Uganda today. Many University graduates fail to get jobs because the job market seems saturated since the available jobs cannot be found. The study therefore aimed at linking the job seekers and available jobs. To achieve this aim we developed a mobile app that aggregates existing job postings from web portals to improve accessibility, timeliness and efficiency. Agile methodologies particularly Scrum and eXtreme Programming were used to develop the mobile application (app). Results showed the app is not only saving employers monetary resources but provides a sustainable and practical way to link Job seekers and to available job vacancies.