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Nigeria invests $721m

Alex Kayle
By Alex Kayle, Senior portals journalist
Johannesburg, 10 Nov 2008

Nigeria invests $721m

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is developing a multimillion-naira Internet project installed at the Federal Secretariat, in Abuja, to provide Internet services to all civil servants, says Vanguard.

Executive vice-chairman of the NCC, Ernest Ndukwe, says the project is in line with its mandate to facilitate and promote the use of ICT in Nigeria, and had obtained the approval of government to deploy Internet services to facilitate governance and the operations of the civil servants that work at the secretariat.

ICT provider, Galaxy Backbone, has been selected to co-ordinate the provision of ICT facilities for government agencies.

Cisco implements Jordan's broadband

Cisco has entered into an agreement with Jordan's Ministry of ICT to implement the country's national broadband network, states Al Bawaba.

The three-year project to build the Cisco IP next-generation network will be co-ordinated in conjunction with Cisco's certified resale and system integrator partners in the region.

The government of Jordan is acting on its long-term vision to provide Jordanian citizens with access to ICT, with all its schools, universities and colleges to be connected via networks at a level and speed that can support the rapid growth of network traffic demand over the long-term.

Brighton adopts MS infrastructure

Brighton and Hove City Council in the UK has migrated its multi-vendor ICT infrastructure to Microsoft in an attempt to improve productivity and communications throughout the council, according to CBR.

The project will be delivered by NEC Philips and sees the council move away from its Lotus Notes e-mail system and Novell network technology, towards a Microsoft-based environment. The council and will now be using Microsoft Exchange and other Office technologies across all its desktops.

Chris Reynolds, ICT project manager at Brighton and Hove, says: “The Microsoft migration project is retiring these older servers and giving staff access to a much larger and totally sharable network resource in the form of our storage area network fronted by our Microsoft Active Directory. This will offer new possibilities with regard to sharing information across teams and business areas.”

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