Through cutting edge undergraduate and graduate training and research, activities with impact on national development, courses, conferences, workshops and exhibitions, concrete applications, partnerships, mathematical and computer literacy, institutional management capacity building, staff development, the award of small grants and prizes to young scientists as ways of promoting quality teaching and research activities as well as rewarding excellence, and research on science and technology policy.

Through the development of an information and communication technology backbone, library acquisitions/development (both conventional and electronic), publications and dissemination.

Through networking, internship, exchange/linkage, lectureships, research visits, sabbaticals, short-term visits, assistantships, and fellowships.

Through the concrete and sustained applications of the mathematical sciences, computer sciences and information technology to development issues, identification and tackling of hot topics from the industry, business and engineering, and joint research activities with the industry, business and engineering.

Through enhancing female participation and affirmative action in training, research and consultancy activities, lifelong learning for women and disadvantaged groups in the mathematical and computer sciences, role-modeling by women experts in the mathematical and computer sciences at all levels of education.