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Contributing to the proposed national information and communications technology policy, Saleshando said it was sad that the IT sector had proved to be a booming industry worldwide but the country was failing to use it to tackle the country's unemployment situation.

Presenting the draft, Mrs Venson-Moitoi said the technology could be used to meet Botswanas economic diversification plans.

The policy focuses on seven key areas that are expected "to deliver the level of impact required to transform our society and economy," she said.

On his arrival at the Estonian capital Tallinn, Hon. Skelemani was met by Botswana’s Ambassador to Sweden Her Excellency Ms. Bernadette S. Rathedi, who is accredited to Estonia, and Senior Officials from the Estonian Foreign Ministry.

"The draft policy focuses on seven key areas that are expected to deliver the level of impact required to transform our society and economy," she said.

Das Projekt "Broadband for Africa" besteht aus drei selbständigen, aber miteinander verbundenen Elementen. Ein Backbone-Unterseekabel für Ost- und Südafrika, ein landgestütztes Backbone-Netz für mehr als 20 Länder im sub-saharischen Afrika und lokale Zugangsmöglichkeiten über WiMax oder Telezentren.

Das Unternehmen Seacom verlegt gerade ein 17.000 km langes Glasfaserkabel vor der ostafrikanischen Küste. Über das Kabel werden mehrere afrikanische Küstenländer erstmals Breitbandanschlüsse bekommen.

Bondo University College, established by the government in 2009, is looking to break with standard education practices to produce graduates better placed to succeed in Kenya’s growing ICT industry. Meanwhile, the Kenya ICT Board has joined forces with Carnegie Mellon University to design a definitive examination for Kenyan software developers.

Unsurprisingly hyperbole was not on short supply at the launch event. Cisco’s representative announced, “We will change the way Africans work, live, learn and play with the rest of the world”. Seacom CEO Brian Herlihy urged the African youth to wake up every morning asking them “are we dreaming big enough?” An excitable Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, speaking from Dar es Salaam live via video link, declared his country ready for “e-commerce, e-government, e-everything”.

Just over half of U.S. households currently subscribe to broadband Internet services, but Gartner predicts that that percentage will grow by more than 20 points by 2012. Amanda Sabia, a Gartner principal research analyst, says one of the biggest factors in the spread of broadband will be the advent of such 4G wireless services as WiMAX and Long Term Evolution that are expected to be launched in various markets over the next four years.

Prime minister Gordon Brown announced in a speech this morning that two new bodies will work with the public sector to drive forward his vision of a " digital economy".

Brown said that both organisations will transform how public services are delivered over the internet, and make them more accessible to citizens.

This was said by Minister' of Communications Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia Haji Awang Abu Bakar in his keynote address at CSPSUBD Policy Forum 2007.

This was stated by the Director of the National E-Government Centre (EGNC), Awg Hj Azhar Hj Ahmad in his welcoming note at the certificate presentation ceremony for the first batch of the Prime Minister's Office (JPM) ICT Conversion Programme who obtained Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis, yesterday, at the Civil Service Institute in Rimba.

In the 8th National Development Plan, the Ministry of Education had allocated more than $145 million to carry out 29 e-education projects for the development of ICT infrastructure, hardware, software and multimedia development and human resource.

In the current National Development Plan 2007-2012, the Ministry of Education has been allocated additional funds to carry out another 15 e-education projects. This was highlighted yesterday by Hj Mohd Daud bin Hj Mahmud, Permanent Secretary (Higher Education) at the Ministry of Education, at the national workshop on New Information Technologies and Tools in Scientific Education.

The Government is implementing a number of projects and programmes, as listed below, in the ICT sector through the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology.

Only about 50 per cent of the current workforce in the ICT field are locals in the private sector, while most e-government initiatives or ICT projects still rely on foreign consultants, Dato Seri Paduka Hj Eusoff Agaki Hj Ismail said.

Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia Hj Abu Bakar Hj Apong said that the ESLF will be tasked to prepare an action plan that will lead towards the development of a "sophisticated society".

"ESLF will also identify a benchmark partner for e-Society initiatives so that we are able to see and address our shortcomings while making the most of our strengths," he said during a ceremony to mark World Telecommunication and information Society Day.

The upgrades are part of Phase I of the Government’s plan to “transform schools into strong, technological centres” through national and international linkages utilising an Information Communications Technology (ICT) Sub-Component.

President Muhammadu Buhari is determined to use Information and Communications Technology to drive the change agenda of his administration and diversify the nation’s economy, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Eng. Babachir Lawal, has said.

According to him, the journey had started with the use of ICT and the digital platform to fight corruption and insecurity in the country.