The MTN Group is investing in a new $700 million submarine cable system, the European Indian Gateway (EIG), to be built by Alcatel-Lucent starting next month. The 15,000 kilometre-long high bandwidth optical-fibre will connect Europe and India from the United Kingdom to Portugal, Gibraltar, Monaco, Libya, Egypt, Djibouti and the United Arab Emirates.
The Action Plan of the Angolan Society of Information (PASI), approved by the Cabinet Council, is in force since last August, with the publication of the First Series number 101 of the Republic Gazette, in a dispatch by the country’s Prime Minister, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos.
A project to boost public-health research in portuguese-speaking countries in Africa is being planned by Brazil.
[This article was published in the April 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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[This article was published in the January 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The tsunami catastrophe that struck several South Asian nations on December 26, 2004, has left behind a trail of widespread destruction.
