Fiona Ssozi

Fiona Ssozi is a Lecturer in the School of Computing and Informatics Technology at Makerere University (Uganda) and she has been actively teaching in the Department of Information Systems since 2007. She coordinates the Development Informatics Research Group at Makerere and has been involved in a number of ICT4D projects in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Rwanda. Her research generally focuses on using co-design to leverage the potential of ICT tools within the rural water management sector and also with marginalized or vulnerable groups such as the visually impaired, rural residents and small-holder dairy farmers. Fiona holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Makerere University (Uganda), a Masters degree in Information Systems from London South Bank University (UK) and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town (Centre for ICT4D - Department of Computer Science) in South Africa