Digital Infrastructure & Communications · 2023
NITA-U’s backbone and government cloud sit behind the next round of e-government work. RCIP is completed; UDAP is described as the follow-on.
Briefing
The note walks through the Regional Communications Infrastructure Programme: national backbone fibre, cheaper government connectivity, and a cloud used for public-service systems. Those are the pipes. The follow-on programme named in the piece is meant to put more government services on that network.
A backbone and a government cloud only hold if the halls, radio and last-mile networks around them are specified and kept up. That is the ICT work ministries already buy. It is not a new product line.
Samanga did not write these articles. The briefing on this page is ours; the original stays on LinkedIn.
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