The Port Louis Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Asraf Dulull, yesterday said government had embarked on the elaboration of "a new National Strategic Plan for the ICT sector so as to give a new boost to entrepreneurship development in ICT in Mauritius." The Minister said this at the launching of an ICT Business Pre-Incubator cell at the Mauritian University of Technology.
Only about 1.5 percent of tax payers used the Internet to fulfill their fiscal obligations last year, when the service was unavailable.
Mauritius has lost six rankings. The country is losing ground in its degree of preparation to participate in and benefit from Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) developments. This is at least the conclusion of the Global Information Technology Report published recently by the World Economic Forum (WEF). While Mauritius claims to be a cyber-island, how come it has gone down by six ranks in one year?
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At the opening ceremony of the Infotech fair at the Swami Vivekananda Centre in Pailles, on Wednesday, he said: “We are currently launching an expression of interest for consultants for the electronic ID card. Once the Central Procurement Board has selected a candidate, we will request the nominee to give us details regarding specifications, designs and software of the card.”
In the general context of globalisation, information and communications technology (ICT) has been developing even faster than other sectors of the economy. To a large extent, it can be said that ICT has actually contributed to globalisation of business. Indeed if the internationalisation of firms is not a recent phenomenon, it is real time communication which differentiates the truly global economy from what we have witnessed in the past.
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