The Uganda Communication commission (UCC) to award the best innovative and ingenuitive companies, individuals and organization in the Information and technology sector this Friday, 18th/May/2012.
According to Executive Director of Uganda communication Gofrey Mutabazi “The growth and development in the Information Communication sector cannot only be credited to the government alone. But also a lot of innovation has been made by the private sector”
Mutabazi disclosed this at a press conference to welcome the Vice President of Research BlackBerry Veena Rawat and the BlackBerry director government Frans Lijkamp.
He said that through the annual communication Innovation awards, UCC will honor and celebrate achievements made by individuals, organisations, government agencies and in the academic institutions like Makerere University.
“It is my ambition to see that UCC plays an even stronger role in the development of the ICT industry”, he said.
Mutabazi noted that because growth in the ICT sector that is why The Vice President of BlackBerry is here as the key speaker at the annual innovation ceremony. He added that this will also be witnessed by the exhibition at Serena hotel on Friday (18th/May/2012).
He argued all key players to adhere to governing regulations to see that the consumers are not cheated. He was responding to a questions raised that some telecommunition were cheating consumers.
He further disclosed that a study is being carried to see that we have an International standard to monitor all the service providers. Those who will not follow UCC will act as per the law.
He accredited the role played by BlackBerry in development of the ICT because it was the only connected on the broadband for its inception.
From: New Vision
