admincountry on infrastructural developments in the sector and how these can be leveraged on to grow their investments.
Minister Chamisa will address the issue of “policies that enable local investment while promoting foreign direct investments as the key economic drivers”.
Other keynote speakers at the convention include South African Ambassador to Zimbabwe Vusi Mavimbela, the Indian ambassador to Zimbabwe Jeitendra Tripathi, permanent secretary in the ICT Ministry Engineer Sam Kundishora and Economic Planning and Investment Promotion permanent secretary Dr Desire Sibanda. Other speakers will be Deloitte risk manager Mr Sylvester Muzenda, Tamaya Investments director Mr Bernie Keel, NetOne managing director Mr Reward Kangai, Kingdom
Bank chief economist Mr Witness Chinyama, and PowerTel chief engineer Ronald Tarugarira among others.
ICT Convention 2012 lead organiser Mr Hausen Zimbowa believes that local firms can benefit from continual upgrade of their operating systems, while a lag can stifle growth. “Continued delays in updating the operating systems in tandem with the developments taking place in the ICT sector has dire consequences in a world that is
now operating like a small village network,” he said.
The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology is currently propagating a five-year strategic plan to 2014, in which it targets to increase national teledensity by 10 percent each year.
Experts believe that an expanding national teledensity rate creates opportunities for new ICT start-ups.
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