c) Using IT to achieve the objectives of alleviating poverty, improving
healthcare, and general welfare of the population;
d) Using e-Government as a tool to improve internal efficiency and quality of
public service delivery and help in the fight against corruption;
e) Encouraging the use of IT in schools, colleges, universities and other
educational institutions in the country so as to improve the quality of
teaching and learning;
f) Using IT to generate additional employment
entrepreneurship for the new digital economy;
and
promoting
g) Encouraging and accelerating investments and growth in IT hardware,
software, Internet, training, IT enabled services, telecommunications and
electronic commerce;
h) Providing adequate infrastructure in the country for IT sector to flourish;
i) Using IT to improve security;
j) Using IT to promote inter alia, labour, health, social welfare, sports,
culture, water and natural resources; and
k) Facilitating the development of sectoral IT policies and strategies e.g. eeducation, e-water, e-health, e-agriculture.
3.3 STRATEGIES
The Government will adopt the following strategies to realise the above
objectives:
3.3.1 Information Technology Infrastructure
Measures will be put in place to encourage the provision of infrastructure for
access to local, national and international information resources. The aim will
be to provide sufficient internet capacity for schools, colleges, businesses; and
to provide a reliable and secure internet infrastructure. A nationwide
network consisting of fibre optic, satellite and terrestrial radio communication
networks will be established.
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