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SA,
Cuba Sign ICT Co-Operation Deal
Rodney Weidemann, Johannesburg.
AllAfrica.com,
December 3, 2003.
SA has signed a co-operation agreement
with Cuba that will see the countries exchange
technical skills and human resources development
in the ICT arena.
The agreement was signed yesterday by SA's
minister of communications, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri,
and her counterpart, Martha Lomas Morales,
Cuba's minister of foreign investment and
co-operation.
The exchange of technical skills and human
resources development will focus on the
areas of capacity building for small, micro
and medium enterprises, the sharing of experience
in satellite and other communication networks,
and the management of limited resources,
such as radio frequency spectrum management.
The agreement is also aimed at promoting
cooperation between local and Cuban enterprises
in the ICT field, with a particular focus
on issues such as roaming agreements, software
development and commercialisation, and the
design, manufacturing, installation and
maintenance of ICT systems.
Other sectors that will see the promotion
and co-ordination of the use of ICT as an
enabler will include the fields of tele-education,
tele-health and e-commerce. The nations
will also co-operate in terms of postal
services and technologies.
It is anticipated that a joint committee
- in which operators, manufacturers, service
providers and other stakeholders may be
invited to participate - will be formed
in order to enhance the parties' efficiency.
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