A Generic Project Management Software

 

Submitted by Morgen Mutsau, Information Technology Consulting Group (ITCG), University-Industry Linkage Consortium, University of Africa (UoA)

 

Contact: Morgen Mutsau

 

A Project management application which can be used to manage different types of project generically. There is so much funding available for different types of start-up businesses but people have no systematic ways of accessing it. Donors are also worried about the fate of their donations as it is quite hard for them to track the goods once they are in the hands of those who distribute it. Much of the aid goes missing and intended beneficiaries end up losing out. Thus corruption and other operational challenges can effectively be managed for different audiences using a generic software package for project management which involves money getting in and distributed to given sets of beneficiaries. The strength of such a software is that it offers the facility of an audit trail.

 

Another key area that the software will be instrumental in is the commercialisation of university research. The universities will be able to login their brilliant students on a platform with potential sponsors and then once funding is secured, the project goes on the project management application to track progress. The software would facilitate the rapid commercialisation of multiple bankable projects lying idle in universities.

This software will create a platform for sponsors to login (after creating an account), for project managers to administer the project and for beneficiaries to track progress. The audit trail would be a confidence builder for investors. This would help many clusters of people identified above.

 

Geographical Information System (GIS) to track livestock. The graze lands have deteriorated and many farmers travel large distances to get grazing for their animals. It is a hard and laborious job to track all the herds and using simple tackers the software