Georgetown : Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, yesterday informed the National Assembly that the Government would be pursuing mega Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Projects.
“What we have is some mega projects that do not link or connect to one another. So you have a cable running from Georgetown to Lethem that is not connected to anything else,” Harmon said.
In respect to fiber optic cables, the Minister pointed out that the Government is working on sorting out the problems with the project and has approached the Indian Government for assistance. This will be forthcoming.
In addition, there are nearly 10,000 computers that are underway from China, to be distributed to teachers, educators and education officials, under a One Laptop Per Teacher (OLPT) programme.
According to the Finance Minister Winston Jordan in his Budget presentation this is, “a departure from the discredited and corrupted One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme of the past regime.”
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