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  • Namibia: Government and private sector join hands on ICT

    A new structural expansion of Namibia Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) will be effected to strengthen government's capacity to promote information and communication technology in the country.

    This was announced at a consultative meeting between government and private sector players, that in future will work more closely towards ensuring Namibia becomes a knowledge-based society. The different sectors have similarly agreed to meet on a regular basis where ICT roll-out and capacity building will be at the centre of the discussions.

  • Namibia: Govt Works On Rural Development

    Government has embarked upon a series of nationwide conferences that would come up with strategies that will contribute to the formulation of a White Paper on Rural Development by the year 2008.

    Since the inauguration of the new Government last year, the Ministry of Local Government, Housing and Rural Development had rural development added to its initial portfolio and thus all these efforts are designed to look at restructuring.

  • Namibia: Govt, private sector join hands on ICT

    A new structural expansion of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) will be effected to strengthen government’s capacity to promote information and communication technology in the country.

    This was announced at a consultative meeting between government and private sector players, that in future will work more closely towards ensuring Namibia becomes a knowledge-based society.

  • Namibia: Gurirab says ICTs should boost economic growth, job creation

    Namibia has made progressive and forward-looking strides in expanding and modernising national communications infrastructure and promoting development of an information society based on knowledge and skills, Prime Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab has said.

    Officially opening a three-day workshop on e-governance that is currently underway in Windhoek, Gurirab said the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) revolution had brought about new concepts of the knowledge economy or the information society, adding that e-governance was a growing integral part of this concept.

  • Namibia: Harnessing Knowledge Through Technology

    A pre-requisite for economic growth in a globalising world is how nations can harness knowledge through the use of technologies. Knowledge today has become an independent commodity driving social, economic and political transformation.

    It has thus become imperative for developing countries in particular - long burdened with often outdated modes of operations and rusty antiquated technologies and importantly information communication technologies (ICTs) - to catch up.

  • Namibia: Harnessing Knowledge Through Technology

    A pre-requisite for economic growth in a globalising world is how nations can harness knowledge through the use of technologies. Knowledge today has become an independent commodity driving social, economic and political transformation.

    It has thus become imperative for developing countries in particular - long burdened with often outdated modes of operations and rusty antiquated technologies and importantly information communication technologies (ICTs) - to catch up. For the development of a knowledge-based and technology-driven economy, the Namibian Government realises that investment in education, infrastructure and technologies, research and development systems, telecommunications and ICTs, are necessary.

  • Namibia: ICT Transforming Health Sector

    Africa should spruce up its e-health services to ensure improved access to health services as a fundamental human right, argued delegates at the IST-Africa Conference in Windhoek, New Era reports.

    It is estimated that more than 33 million people are HIV infected, and that 90 percent of these people are living in settings with limited resources. In Africa, this health pandemic is considered the most important health challenge.

  • Namibia: IT Experts Discuss Narrowing Digital Divide

    About 400 delegates from 33 countries are meeting in Windhoek to discuss how to use information and communication technology (ICT) to advance socio-economic development in Africa through open and freely available software, e-learning, and using ICT for environmental risk management.

    Opening the conference yesterday, Education Minister Nangolo Mbumba said an ICT educational programme, called Techn/Na!, had been rolled out at schools and vocational training centres.

  • Namibia: Marketing Through the SMS

    Namibians were yesterday called on to embrace developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), not to lose their competitive edge and keep striving to be players on the global field of utilizing technology.

    Opening a conference on Innovating Corporate and Marketing Communications, as a guide to marketing through SMS, the Minister of Information and Broadcasting Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said: "As you are all aware, the world today is in the transition from a capital-based economy to a knowledge-based economy. In this transition, it is knowledge and information, and not capital alone, which are the prime drivers of economic development."

  • Namibia: Prime Minister's Office Strategizes

    Prime Minister Nahas Angula has urged senior staff of his office to be proactive towards effective, efficient and accountable public service delivery and socio-economic transformation.

    The PM officially opened a four-day strategic planning workshop, which is attended by the top management cadre including members of the Public Service Commission, consultants from Botswana and staff members of the Polytechnic of Namibia.

  • Namibia: Regional Councils Stimulated By Internet

    The Ministry of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development in collaboration with the French support programme, yesterday expressed satisfaction with the progress made in the Decentralization Network Expansion Project.

    The project, which will allow all the 13 regional councils in the country access to the Internet service, is funded by the French Support Programme for N$3 million.

  • Namibia’s e-governance a reality – Tweya

    Windhoek-Though Namibia missed the June 15, 2016 deadline to establish its Internet Governance Forum, it is now a reality, said the Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Tjekero Tweya, during his keynote address at the inaugural Namibia Internet Governance Forum.

    According to Tweya, the internet has become an increasingly important platform for not only communication, whether locally or globally, personally or professionally, but also in terms of its role as a platform for meaningful political, social and economic engagement.

  • Namibia’s first IXP a step forward

    The Namibia Internet Exchange Point (IXP), which was officially launched on Friday in the capital, should result in more secure, affordable and faster internet services in the country.

    The government received support for the launch of the country’s first IXP from the African Union Commission under the African Internet Exchange Point System Program.

    The IXP connects internet service providers to enable them to exchange local internet traffic between local networks and to interconnect directly in order to offer network improvement and better quality of services.

  • Namibian parliament goes digital

    Namibia is set to transform into a paperless parliament, as per e-government and e-parliament policies, from Wednesday 13 February 2019

    Peter Katjavivi, the Namibian speaker of parliament, has announced that the parliament has already made arrangements with its sister parliament, the Parliament of Finland, concerning the development.

  • National ICT Park Solution For Namibia

    I was inspired to write this article after visiting an incredible state-of-the-art ICT Park called Ebene Cyber City in Mauritius. On April 25 this year President Hifikepunye Pohamba stood before a joint session of our Parliament to address the Namibian people on the state of the nation. In his speech I picked up – to be exact – close to two pages of ICT concerns. He wants to see the development, expansion and maintenance of physical and communication infrastructure around the country as well as the realisation of the promise given to him that the West Africa Cable System (WACS) would revolutionise the ICT landscape in Namibia.

  • New Partnership Brings Fibre to Thousands in Namibia’s First Smart City

    Paratus Namibia and Ongos Connect have signed a commercial connectivity agreement, confirming that Paratus will be the technology/infrastructure partner to bring fibre connectivity to over 11,000 new residents in Ongos Valley, Namibia’s first smart city development.

    The agreement is the conclusion of a two-year planning process during which time Paratus has been working on building the infrastructure (the point of presence and backhauls) to provide the necessary fibre connectivity for residents. As part of the agreement, all Ongos Valley residents will receive 1GB of free data per month for the first five years of residence.

  • New website contains all Namibian laws

    A comprehensive project to make a host of legal information available to users via a web interface was launched in Windhoek this week. This ambitious undertaking known as the Namibian E-Laws project is a tool to improve access to the law, not only by legal practitioners but also by the officials in the Ministry of Justice and by the public in general.

    Deputy Minister of Justice, Hon Tommy Nambahu representing the minister, Hon Pendukeni Iivula-Itana, said the ministry has invested a significant amount of its resources to develop various di-gital platforms where information pertaining to the practice of justice is available. “The Namibia E-Laws will become part of a wider network of E-services such as the Namibian Courts Information System (NAMCIS) and the Justice Net (JustNet) which the ministry has already operationalised,” he said.

  • NM: Don't Hold Your Breath for E-Governance

    The Namibian this week reported that Prime Minister Hage Geingob said the government is working on several electronic laws aimed at tightening internet based communications as the state looks to implement the online based e-governance policy.

    E-governance is a policy that aims to "make government administration more transparent, speedy and accountable, while addressing the society's needs and expectations through efficient public services" using the internet.

  • Where is Namibia heading with Electronic Government and Software Development?

    IN 2004 during the launching of Namibian National Vision 2030, the founding president Dr Sam Nujoma argued youths to be the driving force behind that vision. In 2013, I did research on ‘How can Namibia Implement E-Government Successfully’. The research focused on all aspects of information technology (IT), the implementation of e-government and the automation of processes in order to create an industrialized economy as part of Vision 2030. I learnt that the Namibian government has signed agreements with countries such as Malaysia, China, India, Germany and Russia for its software developments and products with a clause in the agreements that the Namibian government will send its people to study in those countries. And only now do I understand why our government has failed to develop the required skills and knowledge on software development after 24-years.

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