LATEST REGIONAL
PROJECT UPDATE
SIERRA LEONE
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded
a US$773,476 grant to the Directorate of Science,
Technology and Innovation (DSTI) in Sierra Leone to
develop an Integrated GIS Portal that will utilise technology,
software and devices to collect, label and model data to inform
real-time government and development partner decision making.
The grant will also seek to strengthen the local ecosystem around
human capacity development. The Integrated Geographic
Information System (iGIS) Portal is a cross-sectoral spatial data
infrastructure and geodatabase and links diverse geographic
information datasets from the Government of Sierra
Leone (GoSL) and its partners.
NIGERIA
Nokia has announced that Spectranet,
Nigeria’s largest Internet Service Provider, will bring
high-speed access to customers in Lagos and Abuja
by deploying its GPON solution as part of an extensive
Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) rollout. The solution will enable
Spectranet to provide new ultra-broadband services such
as 4K HD video streaming and online gaming to residential
and enterprise subscribers in the region. With Nokia’s FTTH
technology, Spectranet will be able to address the evolving
demands of its subscribers by providing high speed and
stable Internet connectivity at affordable tariffs. The
deployment supports the Nigerian Government’s
Vision 20: 2020 to use technology for the
economic growth of the country.
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