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Date: Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:16 AM
Subject: Emailing: Budget Highlights - ICT An e-inclusive Mauritius - ki news
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Budget Highlights - ICT: An e-inclusive Mauritius
16 Jun 2008
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are becoming key
enablers of modern life though they are not accessible to all. The 2008-2009
Budget unveils measures to address the digital divide and build a Mauritius
where there is social inclusion in a knowledge society.
The budget provides for the setting-up of a National e-Inclusion Foundation on
a joint public private partnership, initially bringing together Government,
State Informatics Ltd, Microsoft IOI and private companies. The object of the
Foundation is to facilitate access to ICT tools and raise awareness on their
economic and social benefits, train users and trainers, and collaborate with
NGOs to reach the poor and those at the margin of the digital society.
To achieve the above objectives,
the Foundation will donate refurbished PCs pre-installed with Microsoft free
licences to 20,000 poor families within the next five years. Another 10,000 PCs
will be given to NGOs for the setting-up of IT classes for the poor, this in
conjunction with the Empowerment Programme. The Foundation will also operate an
NGO IT Academy with the help of Microsoft for free classes in IT to be
delivered specifically to IT teachers willing to acquire more precise
knowledge, as well as to the staff of NGOs and to trainers.
Internet access for poor families participating in the programme will be
financed by the Human Resource Development, Knowledge and Arts Fund which is
being set up.
Other budgetary measures regarding ICT comprise:
Lowering of telecommunications tariffs;
-Extension of DBM computer loan scheme to include Net PCs from Mauritius
Telecom for inexpensive computers costing Rs 7,000 through concessionary loans
over 5 years for the full cost of the equipment and three year´s worth of
internet;
-Development of hotspots for educational institutions and public places and
expansion of -IT school programme by the Ministry of Education in collaboration
with Mauritius Telecom.
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