The ministry of communications said that it was “hopeful that by increasing IT education for Ugandan students, we will be able to improve those interested in becoming leaders in the sector.”
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The BC's Representative Daudi Mulongo while addressing the gathering said that, "The British Council is willing and ready to support the secondary schools in Uganda with equipment in order to enhance the Information, Computer and Technology era to students who cannot afford to buy computers and get to internet."
The project is part of government’s plan to implement an e-government structure designed to improve efficiency in delivery of public services.
The large stacks of dusty files that bear records of all land titles since 1962 when Uganda became independent will be burnt after IGN, a French company, completes capturing all the information and storing them online next month.
Speaking at an ICT workshop for Cabinet ministers in Kampala on Sept. 21 Amama Mbabazi, Uganda's prime minister said government is committed to implementing the technologies through its agencies like the National Information Technology Authority-Uganda and the Uganda Communications Commission.
Climate Change Adaptation and ICT (CHAI), a two-year project launched in Kampala earlier this month (3 August), will generate agricultural, environmental management, market and meteorological information for herdsmen in Uganda's 'cattle corridor'.
Read more: ICT will help Ugandan farmers cope with climate change