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Created By: Esther on 25-Nov-2007 11:19 PM
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have been recognised in the past decades as an essential tool for the scientific, economic and social development of a country.
In the health sector these technologies have proven to be a significant factor for an effective and comprehensive planning, management and estimation of healthcare. The increased development of and use of these technologies in health delivery systems in the industrialised countries led to an improvement of the quality of service, security as well as to cost reduction for patients.
Free Internet Access for HIV/Aids Control
The Treatment and Research Aids Centre (TRAC) has been offered a free internet access for HIV/Aids control by the MTN-Rwanda telecommunication company.
TRAC Director General, Dr Anita Asimwe yesterday announced the deal, which will facilitate health experts and partners nationwide in tracking Aids patients.
"Our staff and other partners on the ground will use free internet access to provide us information on patients," Asimwe told journalists while presenting TRAC's ICT Awards, it won recently.
Nokia Promises 'Information Society' Via Email
Nokia, one of the world's leading providers of mobile phone services, has promised to release a new set of goodies in line with the company's goal to promote the information society.
According to reports by the year 2009, more than 80% of people in Africa and the Middle East would access real time information on their mobile phones, and Nokia envisages an increase in that number to 900 million users by the time the new services are offered.
Foundation Carries ICT Campaign to Schools
A Non governmental Organisation, "MIND Foundation" has carried the campaign to bridge the Information Technology (IT) divide to secondary schools in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, where students are taught how to tap into the information super highway. The three-day workshop was held at the Community Secondary School,Amadiama.
The organisation, which had in the past, formed students into cells to impart skills that would make them fit into the oil and gas sector of the economy, said the effort was its own response to checking militancy in the Niger Delta.
Make ICTs More Accessible
The 5th International Conference on Open Access ended last week in Bagamoyo, Tanzania after successful deliberations.
Leadership, ICT infrastructure for development, ICT infrastructure, M-Applications and ICT in business were some of the issues that were discussed at the conference.
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