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Uganda: Country Benefits From $750m Microsoft Grant
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New Vision (Kampala)
13 December 2007
Posted to the web 14 December 2007
David Muwanga
Kampala
UGANDA is among African countries that are benefiting from a $750m grant from Microsoft for development of information and communications technology (ICT). "Uganda has been one the benefiting countries in Africa when we released a grant of $500m five years ago.
It will continue to be a beneficiary in the just-concluded extended five-year programme that would cost $250m," the company's senior vice-president in charge of emerging markets development, Orlando Ayala, said.
He was one of the speakers who presented papers on the theme: "Emerging Markets: Is There a Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid?" at a Global Knowledge Partnership conference in Kuala Lumpur.
Ayala said under the programme, Microsoft aims at availing sustainable social and economic growth opportunities for the next five billion people worldwide.
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"We have decided to consider a strategy that moves forward with innovations, principles of relevant content, a wider broadband and making ICTs affordable for all," he said.
"We have created a group of technical experts who are making sure we get the youths and women as the most beneficiaries."
The Malaysian deputy premier, Dato Najib Tun Razak, said: "There are still too many poor nations, which are unable to take advantage of ICT."
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