David Muwanga
13 October 2008
Kampala — Two secondary schools have received sh120m information and communications technology (ICT) laboratories under the rural communication development fund project.
The sh120m laboratories at Kitebi and Nsangi secondary schools in Wakiso district were opened by Dr. Hamadoun Toure, the International Telecommunications Union's secretary general, recently.
Patrick Masambu, the Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) executive director, said 100 schools would benefit under the project.
The two laboratories have 10 computers each and are connected to the Internet. The project was funded by the governments of Netherlands, Czechoslovakia and the International Telecommunications Union. It is being executed by the UCC.
Dr. Toure pledged to support the Government's efforts of increasing access to ICTs, especially for rural areas. Increasing accessibility to information communication technologies is one the Millennium Development Goals that must be achieved by 2015.
Toure said Uganda was the first country to set up an ICT regulatory authority in East Africa. The Information Communication and Technology minister, Ham Mulira, said cyber laws to counter the increasing electronic crimes have been drafted.
Mulira said surfing of pornographic sites and electronic fraud were the major cyber crimes committed in the country.
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