E-Government project costs $451M for first half of year

Aug 13, 2014 News

– Civil works completed on all 54 LTE sites

In the first half of the year, the Government of Guyana spent $450.6M for the completion of works under the E-Governance Project.
This is according to the mid-year report released on August 9 by Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh. The report stated that civil works have been completed at all of the 54 LTE-A sites. Commissioning, which is expected by the end of the third quarter, is pending the completion of power conversion to be done by Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc.
GPL’s frequency conversion project commenced in February, and is aimed at reducing technical losses that are caused by old converters.
Meanwhile, under the One Laptop Per Family Project (OLPF), a total of 4,254 laptops were distributed in the first half of the year in Regions Two, Three, Four, Five, and Six. It is anticipated that an additional 10,012 laptops will be distributed by the end of 2014.
In terms of taking information communication technology (ICT) to schools across the country, works are on schedule to complete the equipping of the three remaining secondary schools with computer laboratories before the end of 2014.
The US$32M E-Governance project will see the installation of infrastructure networks, inclusive of fibre-optic cables and twin tracks that it is expected will realise high speed delivery of e-Government content and internet.
According to a Government statement, the project was designed using fibre optic and LTE which would enable high capacity data usage and will have state-of-the-art security measures to protect sensitive information.

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