What you need to know: Dr Chris Baryomunsi, the minister for Information, Communication Technology and National Guidance, speaking at a media roundtable during the Mobile World Congress underway in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, said information was a key pillar of proper governance and development. Barcelona, Spain. The government has stepped up efforts to invest in cloud technology to enable ministries, departments and agencies to store and retrieve information with ease from a central pool, a minister has said. Dr Chris Baryomunsi, the minister for Information, Communication Technology and National Guidance, speaking at a media roundtable during the Mobile World Congress underway in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, said information was a key pillar of proper governance and development. Under the arrangement, Immigration, Police, Nira, Electoral Commission and others would benefit from the central information system which also would include latest data from the upcoming national census. Related The government, he said, has earmarked $200m to fast track digital transformation, and is expecting another $150m from the China Exim Bank to lay the last mile of the fibre cable so that all data of Ugandans are pooled together and government information is stored in cloud. “We are in the process of […]
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