ICT Ministry Continues To Connect Underserved Areas

The Ministry of ICT briefed Cabinet on some of the milestones Honorable Jenfan Muswere has done under his purview. This includes all projects the ministry has done in a bid to bridge the digital divide by bring connectivity to underserved areas.

The ministry has achieved;

• a total of 23 Community Information Centres (CICs) and 60 ICT school Laboratories were established across the provinces;

• A total of 5 Public Service Training Centres, namely: Domboshava; ZIPAM; Senga; PSC Head Office and Highlands were connected with Public Wi-Fi;

• 17 heavy-duty scanners were acquired and 2 000 Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services records digitized under the pilot SMART Government (Digitisation) project; Page 13 of 16

• 265 schools across the country were connected to the internet free of charge;

• Broadband Network Expansion was completed at 31 base stations;

• 50 Clinics were connected under the SMART Health (e-health)/Impilo Electronic Health Record programme;

• A total of 1 344 homes in Chitungwiza, Harare (Gunhill and Alexandria Park); Bulawayo (Hillside) and Zvishavane (Izaya Park) were assessed and passed under the Fibre-to-the Home project;

• the upgrading of TelOne Core Network by 200Giga bytes has been completed;

• the TelOne Cloud Services Centre has reached 85% of completion; and

• the solution design for Long Term Evolution (LTE) with Carrier Aggregated base stations has been completed.