"The vision of regional integration in East Africa is to create wealth,
raise the living standards of all people of East Africa and enhance
international competitiveness of the region. The key to achieving this
vision is increased production, trade and investments in the region
with Information and Communication Technologies playing a leading
role." The East African Community with technical assistance from United
Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) undertook to develop a
harmonized policy and strategy framework for e-government among EAC
partner-states, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. This framework is envisaged
to cover all major aspects of regional cooperation on e-government. In
developing this document, a participatory approach and consultative
methodology was followed to gather data from the three states. Data
gathered included information on current activities and requirements as
well as challenges and opportunities in promoting e-government.
The National Planning Authority (NPA) is seeking comments on the
current draft document that will be consolidated as the Ugandan input
to the EAC Secretariat. Comments must be received by July 22, 2005. Click here for a copy of the EAC Regional e-Government Framework (WORD format).
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The scope of Uganda's National ICT Policy Framework covers information
as a resource for development, mechanisms for accessing information,
and ICT as an industry, including e-business, software development and
manufacturing. The policy looks at various categories of information
from different sectors, essentially aimed at empowering people to
improve their living conditions. The sectors include: health,
education, agriculture, energy, environment, business, and science
& technology. Click here for a copy of the ICT Policy Framework (WORD format).
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Following the November 2003 stakeholder workshop on development of
national ICT strategy
for Uganda, a number of sector focal institutions and sector working
groups
were formalized. Among these groups is the E-Government Sector Working
Group. The group proposes to host a public meeting in May 2004 to
review and gather input to the E-Government strategy document (800 kB zipped document).
Following is an extract from the Executive Summary:
E-government is a way of tapping unrealized potential for high quality
government in Uganda. It enables Government agencies to separately and
collectively lift their performance and deliver better results through using
information and technology in new, more collaborative ways. The strategy
emphasizes that fact that while the centre of government needs to create the
right conditions for e-government it is agencies that actually deliver
government information and services and therefore deliver on e-government
goals. For this reason, achieving the goals of the strategy requires a mix of
top-down and bottom-up initiatives. Each agency must thus identify its
Statement of Intent, or other strategic planning documents.
The strategy aims at:
- Establishing short, medium and long term actions, projects and
programmes in ICT to be achieved by the sector within the given
time-frames.
- Developing performance indicators to measure achievements
- Setting achievable targets and goals for the above objectives
Your comments and input to the strategy document are welcome, and can be channeled by email via
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Following a nation-wide survey to gauge Ugandan's views on the
performance of the broadcast media, a broadcasting policy was drafted
to guide operations such as content, ownership, broadcaster
obligations, advertising, human resource development, the media and
good governance, and signal distribution. Click here for a copy of the broadcasting policy (WORD format).
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On December 6, 2004, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) held a
public consultative workshop to review the Telecommunications Sector
Policy. The current policy and regulatory environment in Uganda was
established through the telecommunications sector policy of 1996, and
operationalised by the Uganda Communications Act, 1997 (Laws of Uganda
Cap 106). The Telecommunications Sector Policy review was initiated by
a recommendation by the UCC to the Minister of Works, Housing and
Communication about the need to review policy at this point in time. A
sector performance review and related analyses conducted during 2003
had established that despite the successes, there are gaps and
short-comings that now need to be addressed in the policy if the
telecommunications sector is to achieve the expected impact in
supporting human development in Uganda. Additionally, one on the main
strategic pillars of the past six years, the duopoly that limited
competition in identified primary markets, ends on July 24th 2005. The
Minister responded by formally asking the UCC to undertake a holistic
review of the sector policy and to make recommendations to the
Ministry, this indeed being in line with the mandate of UCC as spelt
out by the Cap 106, Laws of Uganda.
The Consultation Document on the Telecommunications Sector Policy
has been produced to capture the motivation, the background, the source
documents, and the thinking that gives the basis for the key issues
identified for the consultation process that will be taken into account
in making specific recommendations on broad policy goals, specific
policy objectives, implementation strategy, and implementation master
plan. Click here for a copy of the
Consultation Document. For copies of the presentations and a report on
the issues raised during the workshop, click here.
For more information about the sector policy review, contact:
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