The Zimbabwe government unexpectedly pulled the plug on the country’s local information and communication technology (ICT) last Thursday, when it postponed indefinitely the official launch of the national ICT policy.
Slated for Thursday last week, to coincide with the opening of the three-day IT Africa exhibition that ended on Saturday, the national ICT policy was expected to be officially launched by President Robert Mugabe in Harare.
She was speaking at the launch of the e-period phase, the second part of the national ICTs project carried out to determine the country's e-readiness in Harare last Friday.
At a meeting held in Gaborone, Botswana recently, National Economic Consultative Forum (NECF) executive secretary Nicholas Kitikiti said the country faced many challenges in coming up with a comprehensive ICT policy.