UMEME’s corporate affairs and regulatory director, Blessing Nshaho says that, much as they have partnered with agencies to ensure that, most of the trading centres have access to power, electric wires are being vandalized, which has since slowed down connections.
Professor Mary Okwakol, the Executive Director of the National Council for Higher Education, says that the high cost of the internet is one of the main complaints the National Council of Higher Education has been receiving from learners since last year.
President Yoweri Museveni ordered the closure of schools as one of the measures to control the spread of coronavirus, which, according to experts, moves faster in large gatherings. At the time of the closure, the learners were just half way into the term which started on February 4, 2020 and was due to end on May 1, 2020.
George William Nyombi Thembo, the Director of the Rural Communication Development Fund at UCC observes that most of the teachers in primary schools are not exposed to technological tools yet they are presiding over classes of pupils who are born with tablets in their hands.
The facility will be equipped with electronic database of essential information on majority of sectors of the countrys economy, online books, journals, policies and major research findings amongst others. Dr. James Nkata, the Director General of the Institute says access to the virtual library to members of the public will be by affordable subscription fees that will be decided by the institute.
