Aggrey Awori said this would ease work in projects like the business process outsourcing enterprise that would support outsourcing centres to be set up by the government. Awori was speaking at the swearing-in of the new National Information Technology Authority Uganda executive director, James Saaka, at the ICT ministry boardroom.
This has certainly placed great strain on the limited physical and human resources with some districts having hardly any competent technocrats to run them. Another area of our public life that has been affected by the proliferation of districts in this country, is the coordination of both policy and institutional structures.
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Uganda sent troops to Somalia to contribute to the peace in that region and she is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Prior to the summit, an African Youth forum will be held in Entebbe from July 17 to 19. This is a good initiative by the African governments to involve young people in matters that will affect their future.
Prof. Meoli Karshoda of the Kenya Education Network Trust, said most institutions still rely on local Internet service providers to get bandwidth, which he said is expensive and unreliable.
“If the institutions come together, they can negotiate to get better bandwidth at lower costs for their online teaching and learning programmes,” he said.
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The protocol that will become a reality on July 1, presents one of the easy to solve logistical issues through a simple standard travel document compared to the several legal and political complexities of integration.
A common market will among others allow free movement of people and labour. Uganda does not have a standard national identification system, meaning this will present the first challenge to exploiting the common market.
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