President Museveni has said computers and Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) are enablers of efficiency, calling upon Ugandans to embrace the development .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While commissioning, the regional ICT infrastructure and e-government services in Gulu City,Museveni said ICT is an enabler of the other primary industries, agriculture, among others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Within the industry, we are introducing the pathogenic economy, making money out of the sickness that we have here by making vaccines,”he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He urged Ugandans to embrace ICT as a way to move the country to the next level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We should support the digital transformation,”he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Hatwib Mugasa, the executive director National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U) said a total of 1,606 Kms of optical fibre cable were added on-to the government national backbone infrastructure<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We are happy to launch the regional communication infrastructure programme . We are launching it for the people of Uganda to utilize,”he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said through RCIP, they were able to expand on the cloud service where all the systems are stored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We transformed all our transmission sights to solar. We no longer rely on energy.I recognize the support from development partners,”he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government secured financing from the World Bank to implement the Regional Communications Infrastructure Programme (RCIP) Phase 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The goal of the RCIP is to transform public service delivery using ICT, in order to improve the lives of Ugandans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is also aimed at lowering the prices for international capacity and extend the geographic reach of broadband networks and to improve the government\u2019s efficiency and transparency through e-government applications (the transparency development objective).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RCIP is organised into four components namely: enabling environment, connectivity,e-government and project management with a focus on four key sectors<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These include ;agriculture, health, education, and justice, law and order sector <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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