Big role for citizens in ICT

Citizens should play a major role in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, if the local sector is to develop, the managing director of ICL Botswana has said.

The MD, Anderson Kgomotso, who is also a member of Citizen Owned Businesses in Information Technology (COSBIT), said citizens cannot afford to be spectators in the development and growth of the ICT sector.  He was speaking yesterday at the opening of a two-day ICT Pitso in Gaborone.

Kgomotso said citizens get only 10 percent of funds spent on ICT in Botswana. The remainder goes to foreign-owned projects.

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