connecting communities part 1

Ministry of ICT, Postal and Courier ServicesDeputy Minster Dr Win B.J. MlamboConnect 2 Connect SummitDar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tuesday, the 30th of September, 2014.1

Applying

Cost-Effective and Fast-to-Install ICTs

Adopting

“What Works” and “Leap-Frog” Paradigms

In

Connecting Communities

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Agenda Driving and Guiding Principles

Current Programmes

Future Programmes

Planned Targets

Driving Principles Africa is “Delayed” - Leap-Frog development

Take service to the people Vs Taking people to the service centres

“Destructive Innovation” – Reverse population migration

Build uniform communities – Collapse & Remove divides

(Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation)

- Inclusion of marginalised & disadvantaged social groups

- Commence with easier, easy to appreciate ICT projects

- Poverty Reduction through adoption of ICTs

- Adopt sustainable ICT projects

Three Pillars of Sustainable Development

Social Fabric

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Engender coordination

of information on:

Livelihoods

Citizens' Rights

Public services

Connecting individuals

and groups together.

Social Inclusion

Citizen

participation

Engender coordination

of information on:

Health care

Education

Training

Results …………..

Healthy democracy

Social harmony

Peace & Tranquillity

ICT TOOLS

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Philosophical Construct

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Now the tangible projects

Current Programmes Community Information Centres (CICs)

Connect a School Connect a Community

e-Government drive

Optical fibre programmes

TelOne’s KU-band systems

Future Programmes Global Digital Village (GDVs)

Mobile laboratories

Use of Solar to power Rural ICTs Systems

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