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Sustainable Capacity Building in Software Engineering Research in Africa: The Example of the BRIGHT Project

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The software industry is a key engine of economic growth in Africa, which calls for sustainable and innovative approaches to build capacities in software engineering research and education for the continent. This paper presents the BRIGHT project as an example for a collaboration that aims to build such capacity. The collaboration includes institutions in Sweden and Uganda. The goal of the collaboration is to train faculty in software en- gineering and to build a supporting research environment, which includes the creation of networks with the software engineering community at a global scale as well as connecting academia and the local software industry. So far, the project has resulted in 50 publications, a software engineering research centre, software engineering summer schools, and conferences.

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A. Blom, G. Lan, and M. Adil. Sub-Saharan African science, technology, engineering, and mathematics research: a decade of development. The World Bank Report, 2016.
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BRIGHT. Bright { Build Research Capacity in Innovative ICT for Development. Online: http://bright.mak.ac.ug.
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BRIGHT. Bright Project Publications. Online: http:// bright.mak.ac.ug/?q=project_results_and_publications.
[4]
Makerere University. Makerere-Sweden Research Cooperation. Online: https://maksweden.mak.ac.ug/about-us/aims-program, 2015.

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  • (2024)Computer Science Education in Selected Countries from Sub-Saharan AfricaACM Inroads10.1145/364303715:1(64-82)Online publication date: 20-Feb-2024

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cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes  Volume 45, Issue 3
July 2020
32 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/3402127
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Published: 09 July 2020
Published in SIGSOFT Volume 45, Issue 3

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  1. api economy
  2. software business
  3. software business models
  4. software ecosystems
  5. software engineering economics
  6. software platforms
  7. software product management
  8. software startups
  9. value-based software engineering

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