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The government of Uganda through the Ministry of ICT was honoured to host the 9th electronic learning (e-learning) Africa international conference in Kampala between 28 and 30 May 2014.

The conference attracts more than 1,400 participants from over 90 countries.

E-learning Africa, the leading pan-African conference on technology-assisted learning, is always innovative, exciting and entertaining, offering a unique opportunity to the latest challenges and initiatives in education and training. ICT for education can support a number of vital functions such as educational administration, student access to education, and teacher up-skilling.

Read more: UG: E-learning is a good tool

The National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U) has set July as a month when all government institutions will start adhering to regulations regarding the use of the internet.

Stella Alibateesa, the acting executive director at NITA-U said on the sidelines of the e-government regulations conference in Kampala on June 19 that they were holding the last stakeholders workshop to pave way for the implementation of these regulations.

Read more: UG: NITA-U sets date for e-government regulations

Candidate students registering for exams this year at 237 centres throughout the country will not be required to fill their details on hard copy forms to be taken by their headteachers to the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) offices in Ntinda.

They will simply be registered online.

Their head teachers will not have to travel to Kampala, to the UNEB offices, to deliver their details. Their full details can be sent by email.

Read more: UG: UNEB starts e-registration of candidates

MTN Uganda has contributed close to sh16b to the Uganda Communications Commission’s (UCC) to support development of the rural communications in the country.

This is a mandatory 2% annual levy on the revenue made by all licensed telecommunications companies operating in the country towards the UCC managed Rural Communications Development Fund (RCDF).

MTN chief, Mazen Mroué, presented the sh15,925,352,350 to UCC’s Godfrey Mutabazi yesterday. Mroué said: “Telecommunications plays an increasingly important role UCC in plans to spread ICT literacy countrywide.

Read more: UG: UCC gets 15.9b for rural communications

The Ugandan government has developed an e-governance portal allowing Ugandans to access government information directly, a move expected to ease communications with all government departments.

The government web portal will be a one stop information centre where the public can access government information.

“As a ministry, we shall ensure that all sectors avail the necessary information to us. This will allow our information and technology team to upload all the information to the central web portal,” said Pius Mwinganisa, the principal information officer at the Ministry of Information and National Guidance.

Read more: Ugandan government develops portal for e-governance

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