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ICT Policy in Uganda
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The impetus for this Feasibility Study grew out of an E-Readiness Assessment sponsored by the Ministry of Works, Housing, and Communication that was completed in early 2004. The study concluded that despite the government will and mandate, the growth of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in the country is hampered by funding, investments, and affordability. The study recommended that an adequate ICT infrastructure is needed within the government and in the country in general to accelerate the growth of ICT that, in turn, would contribute toward economic development.
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ICT Policy in Uganda
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ICT is emerging as an important medium for communication and exchange as well as a tool for development, including at the local and community levels. However, this potential is yet to be effectively leveraged. In part this is the result of an ICTD 'affordable infrastructure and related service delivery and capacity deficit' that many rural and peri-urban areas continue to experience and in part because of the 'development-policy and experience divide' that hinders the effective mainstreaming of ICT in development interventions.
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ICT Policy in Uganda
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"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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ICT Policy in Uganda
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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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ICT Policy in Uganda
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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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