The new ICT policy, which has taken over four years to compile will soon be presented to Cabinet, Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services Minister Supa Mandiwanzira has said. Speaking to TechnoMag in a YouTube video interview, the minister said the ICT policy was high priority as the industry needs serious regulation to address a number of anomalies.
"What we are working on right now is that by end of March, I should have taken the revised ICT policy to Cabinet for discussion and hopefully adoption," said Minister Mandiwanzira
Ask any of those in the Generation Y (those born from 1980 till now) how they feel about the internet and they will probably tell you that the UN should add "free wi-fi" to the Declaration of Human Rights.
The prevailing hardcopy system or health records is outdated and a nightmare. At the central hospital level, shortage of storage cabinets and folders has seriously hampered the ability to retrieve records and gather information for research. A trip to the records department to retrieve a patient’s old clinical notes can prove to be a Finding Nemo mission of swimming through an ocean of paper.
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"Among other achievements, the department has computerised most of its border stations and airports as a way of enhancing efficient service delivery.
The model was launched by President Mugabe in 2010 with a view to expediting the investments approval process by bringing all relevant regulatory agents under a single roof.