The digital Hub is part of the ‘Connecting Classrooms’ project being implemented by the British Council across Sub Saharan Africa. In Uganda the project will see 14 hubs set up in 10 districts.
In his remarks, Peter Brown, British Council Country Director noted that the hubs will have high speed internet connection freely provided for the next three years in partnership with Airtel Uganda.
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At Uganda’s many remote health centres, putting pen to paper was the only way to alert health officials to problems such as drug shortages or outbreaks of malaria.
The government, assisted by UNICEF and WHO, have implemented an innovative solution.
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ICT can help developing countries frog-leap stages of development and usher them into first world economies according to a five year strategic plan by the National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U).
Speaking at the Uganda Institute of ICT in Kampala on Friday, Bob Lyazi, the Director of the Rural Communication Development Fund at UCC said about $10m had been invested in the initiative.
Each of these laboratories carries at least 40 custom made computers built to suit conditions in Uganda’s secondary schools.
Speaking at a function where 28 informal artisans were certified after undergoing training at the Uganda Institute of Information Technology (UICT), Nasasira, in a speech read by the permanent secretary, Patrick Samanya, said mixing informal and formal ICT training will help in seeing that a good base of ICT is formed.