Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Civil servants to get personal laptops all the way from China

Today's Daily Monitor run this article:

Ultimate Media
KAMPALA
"THE Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has teamed up with Stanbic Bank, Hi tech Telecom and Tropix Technology to provide personal computers to civil servants in Uganda.

According to the agreement, civil servants will access loans from Stanbic Bank to purchase personal laptops.

The minister of State for Information and Communication Technology, Alintuma Nsambu said he is soon to travel to China to sign an agreement with Toshiba, the manufacturers of the laptops.
The first batch of 3,000 Tropix laptops is expected to be delivered in Uganda by end of the month.

The laptops are expected to ease computer based work for civil servants as well as enable them to personally handle their personal computer needs."

I do wonder if these personal computers shall be used for personal personal things or for personal government things and of course Alintuma needs to explain the difference. Other than that, what does that mean for the secretaries?

Looks like MoICT is more business minded than policy minded, or are they setting up "enabling environment"

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