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Wednesday, 3.07.2024
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The history of health care is marked by a number of key game changers that brought the triumph of health over infirmity.

The discovery of writing skills made it possible for man to remember disease and how to manage it.

Results of that 2 000-year-old discovery are the institutions of knowledge we see today that now form the pillar of present-day health care practice.

Read more: ZW: Towards a National E-Health Vision

We have received a much needed update from ZimSwitch on stuff they have been working on these past several months. The last time we covered ZimSwitch in some depth is when they announced the signing on of 12 financial institutions to their ZimSwitch Shared Services (ZSS). They also announced then that the company was working to launch an internet payment gateway to allow Zimbabweans to transact online by end of 2011.

The latest update explains further the ZimSwitch Shared Services platform; basically, a single point of connection for the financial institutions allowing them to offer financial services via mobile, web and to integrate seamlessly with service providers such as the utilities companies (ZESA for example), companies providing subscription based services like DSTV and merchants in general.

Read more: ZW: ZimSwitch services update: Internet payments, Mobile Money, mCommerce & more

The crafting of a new information and communication technology (ICT) policy to point the direction in which Zimbabwe should go in as far as such technology is concerned could not have come at a better time given the fast rate at which the world is increasingly relying on ICT in almost every facet of life.

According to ICT minister Nelson Chamisa, the new policy will provide for, among other things, the establishment of a national information and communication technology authority, and a national information and communication technology converged regulator and e-government.

Read more: ZW: ICT way to go

In a recent interview conducted with IT News Africa, Zimbabwe’s MDC Minister of Communications and Technology, Nelson Chamisa, confirmed that the process of stabilising Zimbabwe’s political and economic landscape is in place and progressing.

“The country is in a period of rebuilding and the timing for investment could not be better,” he said.

The Minister is also on record as saying that Zimbabwe is moving ahead with plans to push its ICT sector to “the next level” by 2015, orchestrated through the Zimbabwe National ICT Policy Framework, first launched in 2007 and adapted to keep up with industry developments.

Read more: ZW: Chamisa pushes ICT sector to “the next level” by 2015

Information, Communication Technology (ICT) minister Nelson Chamisa said his ministry has finished preparatory work for the country’s revolutionary ICT policy at provincial level, as the government seeks to craft a blueprint by year-end.

The government is in the process of crafting a revised information and communication technology policy framework. Zimbabwe first launched its national ICT Policy Framework in 2007, but the document was overtaken by developments in the fast-growing sector.

Read more: ZW: ICT policy on cards

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