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.
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.
The development project aims to establish tourist information centres in Uganda’s capital, Kampala and in its nearest municipalities borrowing a leaf from the example of Tallinn’s tourist information centres and service offices; introducing job management as well as ICT solutions that are used in Tallinn’s and Estonia’s tourist information centres and service offices to the delegation of Ugandan Local Governments.
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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.
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Udanda’s Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Jinny Saamanya made the plans public over the weekend in Dar es Salaam.
A delegate from Uganda’s ICT Ministry was in the country last week to learn and share experiences on various ICT related issues in relation to social and economic development with experts of the Tanzania’s Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology.