The inaugural regional ICT summit will run for three days
The three-day event, previously known as Connect Kenya, was rebranded when regional ICT ministers proposed an expansion to East Africa and Kenya as the host of the inaugural conference.
Connect East Africa will address issues of building an integrated ICT infrastructure and policies in the region.
It also aims to establish a platform for collaboration, capacity building and knowledge sharing between governments and the ICT sector with a view of linking and hastening implementation of government IT projects to world-class standards.
Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan and Somalia have formed an inter-ministerial committee which looks into breaking regional barriers in harmonisation of ICT. This committee will report their progress at the Summit.
The theme of the 2015 summit is ?Strength is in our networks?. Uganda?s ICT minister, Eng. John Nasasira will speak at the summit.
Other ministers in attendance are Jean Nsengimana of Rwanda, Prof. Makame Mbarawa of Tanzania, Rebecca Joshua Okwaci of South Sudan and Dr. Okeng?o Mathiang?i of Kenya.
By Maurice Okore in Mombasa, The New Vision
