Uganda IT Opportunity 2010

This document highlights the dynamics of the IT market in the African country of Uganda, discusses the economic conditions prevailing in the country, and provides a systematic analysis of key IT market opportunities for vendor strategists. There has been a strong government focus on the expansion of IT through the development of a national ICT policy. However, sustained efforts toward implementation and investment have been lacking. According to our research, the most important sectors in Uganda's IT market are: enterprise, government, mid-market, small business, education, and consumer. Other important aspects of Uganda's IT market are discussed, such as telecommunications, PCs, servers, software, cloud computing, open source, and piracy. This document also provides information on major IT providers in Uganda, for example: IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, Apple, Cisco, HP, Google, Red Hat, salesforce.com, Intuit, Novell, VMware (EMC), Symantec, RIM, and Nokia. Local IT companies and IT associations are also profiled.