Sierra Leone News: Airtel presents Le340m telecoms equipment to Njala University

Edit Awoko 22 Jun 2016
The Dean emphasized that with a well equipped ICT lab “we can now start our masters program.”. Airtel’s Human Resource Manager, Barry Honor said that ICT is the bedrock for the development of any society ... places in African have used ICT as the centerpiece of their development....

Tánaiste presents spending plans totalling €2.458 billion in the Justice Sector and allocates substantial additional resources to An Garda Síochána (Department of Justice and Equality of Ireland)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
The Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald, TD, is presenting the Revised Estimates dealing with spending for 2016 for the Justice and Equality sector to the Dáil this evening. The Estimates provide for over €2.458 billion in gross spending across the eight individual votes in the Justice Group ... Spending for Garda includes the additional exchequer funding of €40 million announced recently....

African Ministerial Forum stresses urgency to accelerate ICT integration in education to achieve Africa’s Agenda 2063 and the SDGs (African Development Bank Group)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
The Second African Ministerial Forum on the integration of information and communications technology (ICT) in education and training under the theme ... it is urgent to accelerate ICT integration in education and training to develop 21 century skills, advance knowledge society and achieve Africa's Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....

World must act faster to harness potential of the digital economy (OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
Stimulating Digital Innovation for Growth and Inclusiveness) Over 2001-13, ICT investment in OECD countries, including spending on infrastructure, transmission facilities and firm-level software, fell to 2.7% of GDP from 3.4% (13.5% from 14.8% of total investment.) Firm-level studies by the OECD show that to be effective, ICT spending must be ......

If I Were The Administrator Of GIFEC

Edit Modern Ghana 22 Jun 2016
There is no doubt that the advent of Information Communication Technology (ICT) has accelerated the transformation and development of the world. Ghana, realising the potential of ICT as a tool and enabler for development started the process of developing an ICT policy in 1998 ... We need the youth to take giant steps in the development of businesses in the ICT sector....

>If I Were The Administrator Of GIFEC

Edit Modern Ghana 22 Jun 2016
There is no doubt that the advent of Information Communication Technology (ICT) has accelerated the transformation and development of the world. Ghana, realising the potential of ICT as a tool and enabler for development started the process of developing an ICT policy in 1998 ... We need the youth to take giant steps in the development of businesses in the ICT sector....

UNESCO promotes universal access to digital information for persons with disabilities at the COSP9 in New York (UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
She also elaborated on the current programmes that UNESCO has implemented in order to empower persons with disabilities to access information and knowledge by using ICTs. Thus, access to digital information in cyberspace using ICTs by persons with disabilities should be seen as an integral part of the human rights framework in the digital age particularly as concerns freedom of expression and right to information....

Wheatley: Public to have free Internet access to Gov’t services in weeks

Edit Jamaica Observer 22 Jun 2016
Wheatley first outlined the proposed policy as part of a 10-point plan for information communication technology (ICT) sector development during the Jamaica Labour Party’s final week of campaigning leading up to the February 25 General Election, which the party won ... Accordingly, we were the first Administration to put forward a definitive 10-point plan for ICT....

Wheatley: Public to have free Internet access to Government services in weeks

Edit Jamaica Observer 22 Jun 2016
Wheatley first outlined the proposed policy as part of a 10-point plan for information communication technology (ICT) sector development during the Jamaica Labour Party’s final week of campaigning leading up to the February 25 General Election, which the party won ... Accordingly, we were the first Administration to put forward a definitive 10-point plan for ICT....

The Role of ICT in the Modernization and Democratization of the Country (Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
The participants noted that in the years since Uzbekistan's independence the country has turned into a regional leader in the field of development of modern ICT and into a country with an advanced information infrastructure ... systems, organization of activities aimed at the large-scale use of the system of state and public control of modern ICT....

The Public Accounts Committee Reviews Progress of Replacing HMRC Aspire Contract (techUK)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
The contract accounted for 84% of HMRC's ICT spend and cost over £8 billion between 2004 and 2014 which makes it the government's largest technology contract ... The aim of this approach is to increase competition and value for money for HMRC and the taxpayer ... Almost three quarters (73%) acknowledge that having access to the right skills internally would help drive better value from their department's IT spend....

DICT staff lands top IT post at Comesa

Edit Nation 22 Jun 2016
Lanka Dorby, director general for Information Technology in the Department of Information and Communications Technology, is taking on a new post as director of Information Technology (IT) for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa region soon ... The president congratulated and wished her success in her new post ... Mrs Dorby said the first thing she has to do is a feasibility study to assess each member state’s level in ICT....

Technology minister requests audit of all Gov’t websites

Edit Jamaica Observer 22 Jun 2016
Making his contribution to the ... Meanwhile, Dr Wheatley said by this time next year, the Government will table a new Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Act, which will repeal the 16-year-old Telecoms Act ... A key component outcome of this new Act will be the creation of a Single ICT Regulator,” he noted....
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