adminPowertel is rolling out infrastructure to rural and marginalised communities, thereby connecting the unconnected. This is building on its mandate of providing Information Communication Technologies to the entire electricity value chain, key economic drivers and the nation at large.
The company further invested in upgrading technologies that enhances efficiency in electricity purchase while focusing on deploying technologies to rural communities, a programme called Rural Datafication.
The Rural Datafication project is modelled along the lines of rural electrification and will involve dual deployment of electricity and fibre to the unconnected areas. It will also follow the communities electrified and those being electrified under the rural electrification programme.
Leaving no one and no place behind
The project is in line with Government’s objectives to uplift the livelihoods of rural communities towards attainment of an upper middle income by 2030.
Rural Datafication project is targeted at bringing connectivity to transform rural communities and enable them to be participants in the global economy. The deployed ICT infrastructure plays a dual purpose; monitoring and control of the electricity infrastructure and more importantly for the rural communities, providing accessible and affordable ICT services thereby contributing immensely to the development of a digital economy.
Powertel, through utilising the existing electricity infrastructure through hanging OPGW cables which carry internet overhead, will be aiding towards the digitalisation of the whole country.
Benefits cuts across all economic activities
Government, mission, council and private schools
Clinics and hospitals
Farming communities
Government agencies and departments
Individual homesteads
Non-Governmental Organisations
Private sector players, eg banks, mines
This means rural communities will be able to access the following:
E-education
E-health
E-agriculture
E-commerce
E-Justice
E-Agriculture
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