The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) yesterday signed a Project Document with the Guyana Government for e-services to poor, hinterland and remote communities.
A release from the UNDP said that the ICT Access and e-Services for Hinterland, Poor and Remote Communities (HPRC) project will be executed by the National Data Management Authority (NDMA). Signing on behalf of the Government of Guyana were Minister of Finance Winston Jordan and Minister of Public Telecommunications Catherine Hughes.
The release noted that Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy emphasises sustainable development in the hinterland and a key facet of this is the linking of public services and information flows to new Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). It is against this backdrop that the ICT Access and e-Services project will be rolled out over five years beginning today. The US$17M project is being funded by the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) into which Norway has placed funds accruing from its forest protection partnership with Guyana.
