Overview of the Digital Uganda Vision

Ministry of ICT & National Guidance (MoICT & NG)

20th July 2017 - Vision Document for The Digital Uganda Movement THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA
ICT - World of Opportunities
a. It is a basic tool for survival of the
country in the next century;
b. It will enhance efficiency and
transparency both in government
and private establishments;
c. It will signify the measure of
development;
d. It can mitigate the problem of
transportation through effective use
of social communication;
a. ICT s... in the areas of
i. monitoring crime;
ii. health - tele-medicine; e-medicine and
international consultation programmes;
iii. education -promotion of interactive education,
distance education, knowledge sharing;
development of common curriculum etc;
iv. agriculture and farming, for dissemination of
information and become relevant entry points
b. data collection mechanism to enable data
analytics;
c. productivity, innovation and entrepreneurship.
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 Key Indices

147 73 20
129 150
IDI 2016 Rank 157 112

111 129 158 148 73 19

IDI 2015 Rank 155

Human Development Index 163 139 146 159 139 64 5

e Gov Develop Index Rank 128 120 119 138 132 58 4

Uganda Ghana Kenya Rwanda Zambia Mauritius Singapore

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 Regional IDI Ranking

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6 9 20
Uganda
Ghana 17
Kenya
Rwanda
Zambia 1 6
Mauritius
Singapore

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 Sub Indices

IDI ACCESS SI IDI USE SI IDI SKILLS SI 30

22.5
7
4 6 15
2 3 4 8
1 2
2 5 2 4
4 1 3 7.5
Uganda
Ghana 3 1
Kenya 3 7 9
Rwanda
Zambia
Mauritius 0
Singapore

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 GNI per capita

9,610

1,500
700 Mauritius
1,340 Zambia
1,480 Rwanda
Kenya While Singapore is 52,090
670 Ghana
Uganda

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 While Singapore is 737006

40,067

4,633 2,841 33,896

Uganda 5,661
Ghana 3,187
Kenya
Rwanda
Zambia
Mauritius

International internet bandwidth per Internet user (Bit/s)

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 Uganda 50

Ghana 130

Kenya 81

Rwanda 70

Zambia 74

Mauritius 141

Singapore 146

Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions per 100 inhabitants

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Key Indices

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I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and
how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

Alex Steffen
The Vision for a Better Uganda - A Digital Uganda

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 A Digital Uganda
What is Digital Uganda? Why do we need it?

Digital Uganda is a branded

In order to achieve the goals of
campaign that will aspire to universal inclusion,
build a better society, foster sustainable development,
innovation and create a economic progress & poverty
positive social and economical eradication through digital
impact through a unified action innovation, a unified plan that
plan focused on technology combines initiatives across
based empowerment by multiple sectors into a larger
bringing the best services to all vision is necessary.
people.

Approximately 82% of Ugandas inhabitants are involved in agricultural activities . Despite this, 25% of Ugandans still lack access to clean water and 38% live below the poverty line.

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ICT ......journey.
Year Description
1977UPTC established
1993Celtel Uganda second License provided
1994first mobile phone service commenced
1995Celtel Uganda was founded
1996First National Telecom Policy formulated
Uganda Communications Commission was formulated; UPTC split into UPL and UTL;
1997 UTL to be privatised ; Establishment of RCDF; SNO promulgated.
1998MTN awarded SNO
1999MTN Publicom established
2000UTL privatised
2001First RCDF policy
2003First ICT Policy
2003ICT in education (LLE) / ICT in health (PDA Project)
2006National ICT Master plan developed
2006Ministry of Information and Communications Technology established
2009National Information And Communication Technology Act
2013Uganda Communications Act

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Where are we now? - Existing Laws & Policies
National Information Technology Authority, Uganda Act, 2009
Computer Misuse Act, 2011
Electronic Transactions Act, 2011
Electronics Signatures Act, 2013
Uganda Communications Act, 2013

Uganda National ICT policy, 2003

National Broadcasting Policy, 2014
Policies Information Technology Policy, 2012
EWaste Management Policy for Uganda, 2012
Telecom Policy, 2011
EGovernment Framework Policy, 2010

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Where are we now? - Existing Laws & Policies

BPO strategy and Model for Uganda

Strategies National Information Security Strategy (NISS)
Digital Broadcasting Migration Strategy
Broadband Infrastructure strategy

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ICT in other sectors

Various Ministries have their own ICT

policies and strategies in place

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What is in SIP - highlights?
ICT Governance
Foundational Support for
Man Power Development & Planning
ICT Development
ICT Infrastructure
Information Security
Enabling Environment to Reserach Innovation & Development
spur ICT Growth and ICT Health, Safety and Environment
Utilization
ICT in other sectors

Promoting e-services and Local Content

ICT for Service Delivery e-Government
ICT industry awareness and promotion in Target
Markets
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 Infrastructure sharing - Current fiber / tower network
Company Route Length (km)

Uganda Telecom
Kampala Entebbe 42.2
Kampala Mukono 20
Kampala- Masaka 258
Mbarara- Katuna 220

MTN (U) Limited

Kampala Busia206
Kampala Mbarara 289.8
Kampala - Masaka, 258
Mbarara Katuna 220
Masindi- kiryandongo- Oyam- Kole Lira-Soroti-
Kumi.
Kumi- Mbale- Tororo
Airtel Around Kampala 82
Infocom
Kampala Tororo 240
Kampala Katuna 596
Roke Telekom Kampala Metropolitan 360
Masaka- Mutukula 88
Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited
(UETCL) Nalubale Malaba, Masaka - Mbarara
Nalubaale -TororoTororo Malaba
The penetration of fiber optic network is relatively poor in rural areas. Around 60
Bujagali-Kawanda-Mutundwe, Kampala-Namanve. 480.85
MoICTs -Government of Uganda.
(NBI Phase 1 & 11)
districts have no fibre on their land and more than 1030 sub counties have no fiber
Kampala, Entebbe, Mukono, Jinja,
BomboLuwero, Nakasongola, Masindi, Gulu, Lira, Soroti,
connectivity, while only Kampalas metro fibre network is around 282 km. Also,
Kumi, Mbale, Tororo, Busia, Kyenjojo, Fortportal, Kasese,
Bushenyi, Mbarara, Ntugamo, Egelu, Iganga, Bugiri,
Tororo, Busia, Malaba. 1,585
though 5,110.85
Total fiber there are
Km around 5100 km of fiber in the country, most of the routes are
duplicated, effectively reducing the fiber route to less than 2100 km.

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Infrastructure sharing - current fiber/ tower network

Out of the around 4000 base stations in the country,

only around 1,600 are 3G enabled. Out of the 612 sub
counties having 3G coverage, 384 do not have any
fibre to support data backhaul, implying limited access
speeds.

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Infrastructure sharing - fiber/ tower network

To enable the rapid growth and use of the INTERNET in

line with the NDPII - milestone of 30Mbps per household
in urban areas - FTTH is imminent;
Achieve speeds of Giga using fiber to homes;
Use of the NWSC; to get access to households;
Use of UMEME lines to extend fiber to houses.

Fiber to the home (FTTH), is the installation and use of optical fiber from a central
point directly to individual buildings such as residences, apartment buildings and
businesses to provide unprecedented high-speed Internet access. FTTH promises
connection speeds of up to 100 megabits per second (Mbps)

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e-Government Services
There are currently more than 70 e-services provided by major service providers -

Uganda Police Force (UPF)

Uganda National Bureau of
Uganda National Examinations Board
Standards
Uganda Registration Services Bureau
Ministry of Finance Planning and
(URSB)
Economic Development
UMEME
National Information Technology
National Water and Sewerage Corporation
Authority-Uganda (NITA-U)
(NWSC)
The Electoral Commission
Uganda revenue Authority
Public Procurement and Disposal
Ministry of Gender, Labour & Social
of Public Assets Authority
Development
Judiciary
NSSF
Uganda Wildlife Authority
KCCA
Higher Education Students
IGG
Financing Board (HESFB)
Bank of Uganda (BoU)
Mulago National Referral hospital
Ministry of Internal Affairs
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Digital Vision enablers
Cloud Computing
E-Tax System by URA
KCCA intranet
Government cloud by NITA-U
Big Data
GCIC
National Security Information System(Nation ID)
KCCA intranet
IFMS
Data Centres
Ministry of Finance
National Data Centre - NITA-U
Smart Cities
Smart Kampala City By KCCA
Safe City KCCA and Uganda Police Force 28
Some ICT Innovations
Jaguza Livestock App -a software application for Livestock keeping
Ensibuko -a web and mobile application that enables Savings and Credit Cooperative
Societies (SACCOS)
WiNsenga (Reproductive Health) -an application for reproductive health in women.

Incubation and innovation programs also undertaken and supported by the Private sector and
NGOs. Some are:
MTN Innovations Challenge,
CAMTech Uganda,
Mbarara University of Science and Technology,
Resilient Africa Network (RAN),
Outbox,
Hive Co lab
Makerere University College of Computing and Information sciences among others.

Some of the innovative ideas that have been successfully incubated to commercialization -
Safe Boda, Ensibuuko, Yoza, Run for Your Life, MamboPay, Common Sense etc.
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ICT Innovation Support program

At a cost of UGX 75bn for a 5 year period

Provides support for indigenous ICT innovators
Provides for establishment of ICT parks
To Develop and promote indigenous ICT products,
services and solutions for improved service
delivery
To promote local electronics manufacturing and
assembly
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Emerging Technologies!! Geo-Spatial
analysis

Cloud Computing
Quantum Computing Precision farming

Smart cities
Internet of
things and Humanised
Smart Homes Big Data
Analytics

01 02 03 04 05 06 07
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Digital Uganda - A Plan to Succeed
Working with the larger picture

Address issues related to

infrastructure support, policy framework, access
to the ICTs, capacity development, collaboration amongst
various agencies, common access of government services
by citizens, delivery of services and participative access.
Define Key New Digital Initiatives to be implemented for each
sector.
Realign and Integrate existing Initiatives under a unified
umbrella.
Combine and syndicate resources across initiatives.
Reduce cost of implementation by optimising resources.

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Digital Uganda - A Plan to Succeed
Some actions Creative industries to facilitate e-content growth
Digitalisation of government and other indigenous content
Trust and confidence of consumers (cyber security, data
protection, etc.).
Integration of Various government systems
Digital identification
E-payment and financial services for e-transactions
Promote Efficient use of resources amongst the government.
Provide efficient Governance
Empower citizens
Create Jobs & Knowledge
Spur Innovation
Help local Manufacturing
Promote and open up App based markets
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Benefits of the Programme

Digital Uganda weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a
single comprehensive vision
It will compel change in governance processes for delivery of services.
It will result in faster and timely service delivery and ensure that the benefits of
development will reach all citizens of the country in equal measure.
Broadband access to all will open a new world of economic opportunities in
rural areas for e-commerce, outsourcing and back offices, marketing of
agricultural products etc.
Local manufacturing could promote jobs and improve the standards of living of
the people of Uganda.

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 Thank you.

Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MoICT) - Government of Uganda 35