On 1 May, the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST; Macao, China), in cooperation with the Ministry of Communication and IT (MCIT) of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, will launch a project to develop electronic government in Afghanistan. This project — Developing Electronic Government in Afghanistan: Assessment, Strategy, Programme — will be implemented jointly by the UNU-IIST Center for Electronic Governance and MCIT, and co-funded by the UNU and the World Bank.
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Despite lacking even a basic infrastructure, Afghanistan appears to be moving ahead with an e-government programme
The United Nations is turning to IT as a key part of its attempts to help build a government administration for war torn Afghanistan, according to reports on 10 November 2003.
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United Nation Development Programme is training more than 1,800 people in basic computer skills in war torn country of Afghanistan in order to equip the nation with modern information technology.
The basic aim of the project is to train the civil service and local government staff, and then move on to academia and the public