In order to bridge the digital gap, the Malawi government is pursuing a project to connect over 500 public facilities in rural areas to the internet.
The Digital Acceleration Malawi Project is a six-year initiative under the Ministry of Information and Digitalisation's e-government division. It is supported by the World Bank with a grant of $150 million.
The project began in September 2024 for its initial phase, and the Ministry currently holding stakeholder meetings in various parts of the country to bring this project closer to the people and search for places to connect.
According to Ackim Sanuka, senior deputy director for the department, the project focusses on internet connectivity to improve the government's capacity to provide digital services to the people in all areas, stating that information should be easily accessible with the click of a button rather than physically moving from one office to another.
"We should have a single platform to access the information, we are also looking at extending rural connectivity, secure data hosting, whereby we have a newly constructed national data city in the city of Lilongwe, that aims at providing a conducive environment for the safety of these systems,” he explained.
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