Uganda: Government to Link Optic Cable to SEACOM

24 August 2010

Kampala — The national data transmission backbone and e-governance infrastructure cable will be connected to SEACOM, the East African Marine System (TEAMS) and the East African sub-marine cable system (EAASy) cables, the ICT minister has said.

Aggrey Awori said this would ease work in projects like the business process outsourcing enterprise that would support outsourcing centres to be set up by the government. Awori was speaking at the swearing-in of the new National Information Technology Authority Uganda executive director, James Saaka, at the ICT ministry boardroom.

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