Aminah Zawedde, is a Ugandan

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and

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, who serves as the permanent secretary of the Uganda Ministry of ICT and National Guidance since 15 July 2021. Before that Zawedde was a lecturer and researcher in the School of Computing and Informatics Technology at

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, the oldest and largest

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Background and education

She was born in the Buganda Region of Uganda in the 1970s. After attending local primary and secondary schools, she was admitted to

. She graduated with a

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and

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in 2001. She followed that with a

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degree in

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, also from Makerere University. She also studied at the

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, graduating with a

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, in 2014. Her third degree was a

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, obtained from the

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, in the Netherlands, in 2016.

Career

Zawedde has been a lecturer and a researcher at the School of Computing at Informatics at Makerere for over 15 years. For the first five years, she was an assistant lecturer. Starting January 2011, until July 2021 she was a tenured lecturer, who supervised undergraduate and postgraduate students at the school. During that period, she worked and volunteered in various academic and non-academic positions, including as a Data Officer at the Electoral Commission of Uganda, as an IT Intern at the

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, as an IT Consultant at the

Infectious Diseases Institute The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), established within Makerere University, is a Ugandan not-for-profit organization which aims to strengthen health systems in Africa, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases; through research and capac ...

and as

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in Nairobi,

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. On 15 July 2021, president

Yoweri Museveni Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa (born 15 September 1944) is a Ugandan politician and Officer (armed forces), military officer who is the ninth and current president of Uganda since 1986. As of 2025, he is the third-List of current state lead ...

made wide-reaching changes affecting a number of cabinet ministries, including the retirement of seven permanent secretaries. As part of those changes, Zawedde was appointed PS of the ICT ministry, replacing ''Vincent Waiswa Bagiire'' who was relocated to the

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Other considerations

Zawedde has authored or co-written a number of peer-reviewed articles, in the areas of her expertise and has presented some of them at international, regional and national conferences. She serves as a non-executive director of

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, the parent company of

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and National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U).

References

External links

Dr. Aminah Zawedde: Member NITA Uganda
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Background and education

Career

Other considerations

See also

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