Treasury permanent secretary Joseph Kinyua says the concessional loan will help the government in connecting all government departments electronically.
The funds will go to the government owned national optic fiber-backbone infrastructure to help link all government services on the internet.
E-government is government backed programme which is aiming to roll out Internet to rural areas to allow access of services such as registration of births and deaths certificates, passport issuance and tax collection electronically.
Kinyua says the loan will help accelerate the project which has been slowed by lack of funds adding that negotiations with the Chinese government are ongoing in order to facilitate the funding of various infrastructural projects in the country.
Some of the target projects are the construction of the Lamu port and a pipeline linking Kenya Ethiopia and south Sudan.
Treasury is expected to play host to over 50 finance ministers in Africa to discuss various economic issues affecting the continent.
The meeting which kicks off Friday at the Windsor hotel will run for three days.
Some of the issues to be discussed are plans to have a single currency for the African countries and the central bank of Africa modeled along the European union bank.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): O'brien Kimani
Quelle/Source: Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, 28.06.2012
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