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Remotest communities can now make free satellite phone calls – NDMA breaks through

Dozens of Guyana’s remotest communities have in recent years been benefiting from free Government Wifi internet hubs, allowing residents to surf the world wide web, students to complete research assignments and sports lovers to follow events around the world just to name a few benefits. Now, the National Data Management Authority (NDMA) is outdoing itself again, […]

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Region Nine benefits from Government Free Internet

The captivating natural beauty of travelling to the Hinterland before 2017 was limited only by an absence of reliable connection to the coastland through Information Communication Technology (ICT). This led to widespread consideration that travelling and tourism in Guyana’s hinterland was a journey into ‘no-mans-land’ as they say in Guyanese parlance. Not so anymore! Following […]

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12-member Government team to travel to Estonia, China for eGovernment Study Visit and Workshop

A 12-member multi-sectoral team of Government officials on April 8, 2019, travelled to Estonia and China as part of an eGovernment Study Visit and Workshop where they participated in activities aimed at expanding awareness of the importance, application and implementation of eGovernance. The team consists of members from the Ministries of Business, Education, Finance, Legal […]

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E-Government infrastructure to be managed by local engineers – training and capacity building ongoing at NDMA

The National Data Management Authority is conducting a series of training and capacity building exercises in keeping with its long-term goal of having the Government’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure managed exclusively by an experienced pool of local engineers. Director of the NDMA, Floyd Levi said recently that a two-month training exercise was conducted in […]

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Transforming Guyana’s IT Sector NDMA Completes specialised technical training for staff, increases number of eGovernment ICT hubs countrywide

As government seeks to develop both our human and infrastructural capabilities, the National Data Management Authority (NDMA), under the Ministry of Public Telecommunications, is striving to fulfill its mandate by focusing on using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to achieve these goals. In terms of building capacity to ensure that the eGovernment Network is operated […]

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e-Government Agency and NDMA officially merged

-will strengthen capacity of implementing Government’s eGovernment Agenda Georgetown, Guyana – (March 31, 2017) As part of its overall mandate to transform Guyana into a nation driven by Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Government has fulfilled its promise of merging the e-Government Agency and the National Data Management Authority (NDMA). This merger will lead to […]

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Boosting Our Capacity: 2016 Seminar On Information Technology Application For Developing Countries

Over the past months, several staff of the eGovernment Agency seized the opportunity to develop and strengthen their ICT and related skills. These opportunities came in the form of ICT-based training courses/seminars sponsored by the governments of the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of South Korea, and the Republic of India. This series of […]

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Seminar On Telecommunication Network Planning And Optimisation For Developing Countries

Over the past months, several staff of the eGovernment Agency seized the opportunity to develop and strengthen their ICT and related skills. These opportunities came in the form of ICT-based training courses/seminars sponsored by the governments of the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of South Korea, and the Republic of India. This series of […]

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Senior Management Retreat at Skeldon Estate (Berbice)

The eGovernment Agency held a successful five day Strategic Planning Retreat for its Senior Management at GUYSUCO’s Skeldon Sugar Estate over the period November 2-6, 2016 The main objective of the Strategic Planning Retreat was to develop the building blocks for a draft eGovernment Strategy, which will fit into the wider national digital strategy. Specifically, […]