Francis Emorut
17 October 2007
Kampala — UGANDA is to benefit from a $1.7b (sh2,958b) project for building information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, writes Francis Emorut.
The infrastructure will be used for research and education networks in African universities.
Global Medical Research Exchange and Geographic Network Affiliates International are the sponsors of the project.
Edward Fantegrossi, the chief executive officer of Geographic Network, said Uganda would be the flagship site.
Fantegrossi was briefing ICT experts, academicians and librarians from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, South Africa, the US, Sudan and Zambia about the Internet Education Equal Access Fund at the Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala.
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