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Celebrating World Telecomms Day and its significance

Making connections: Telecommunications are key to empowering communities and uplifting lives 
PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Making connections: Telecommunications are key to empowering communities and uplifting lives PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Liquid Intelligent Technologies Botswana managing director, ODIRILE TAMAJOBE, shares his take as the globe celebrates World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. The Day was marked on Wednesday and held under the theme, “Empowering the Least Developed Countries through Information and Communication Technologies”

Question: What is the significance of World Telecommunication and Society Day and how does it align with Liquid’s mission and goals?

Tamajobe: World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is commemorated to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies can bring to societies and economies. It also seeks to look at ways of bridging the digital divide.

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