{"id":1258,"date":"2013-05-16T18:11:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fortuneofafrica.com\/ug\/facilitations-of-the-ict-and-telecom-sector\/"},"modified":"2013-05-16T18:11:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:11:05","slug":"facilitations-of-the-ict-and-telecom-sector","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/facilitations-of-the-ict-and-telecom-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilitations of the ICT and Telecom sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Uganda (GOR) has done the following to facilitate the ICT and Telecom sector;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The government allocations to ICT was Shs12 billion in 2012\/13<\/li>\n<li>The Government of Uganda has tried to promote and support development of appropriate ICT solutions that are affordable and sustainable<\/li>\n<li>The government has embarked on initiatives to improve rural connectivity and a national ICT policy was finalized in 2010 to facilitate the proliferation of ICTs across the country.<\/li>\n<li>Uganda&#8217;s Constitution provides for freedom of expression, speech and association as well as the right to access information<\/li>\n<li>The government is collaborating with relevant partners to develop freely accessible language education materials and have them appropriately disseminated while at the same time translating key information resources into local<\/li>\n<li>In 2010, the government passed three cyber laws that is; the Electronic Signatures Act, Electronic Transactions Act and Computer Misuse Act which focus mainly on cybercrimes and terrorism<\/li>\n<li>Uganda is working within the scope of a comprehensive and integrated plan intended to promote the communications technology sector with a view to supporting the country\u2019s development.<\/li>\n<li>Government of Uganda, through the Ministry of ICT decided to implement the National Data Transmission Backbone Infrastructure and e Government Infrastructure project for high speed communication<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Uganda (GOR) has done the following to facilitate the ICT and Telecom sector; The government allocations to ICT was Shs12 billion in 2012\/13 The Government of Uganda has tried to promote and support development of appropriate ICT solutions that are affordable and sustainable The government has embarked on initiatives to improve rural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1258","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The government of Uganda (GOR) has done the following to facilitate the ICT and Telecom sector; The government allocations to ICT was Shs12 billion in 2012\/13 The Government of Uganda has tried to promote and support development of appropriate ICT solutions that are affordable and sustainable The government has embarked on initiatives to improve rural&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}