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India, Kenya sign MoU
By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI, DEC. 5. India and Kenya today signed a Memorandum of Understanding on institutionalising a framework of cooperation and collaboration in the communication sector. The MoU, which formally brings into existence a Joint Working Group on communications, focuses on policy issues, exchanging relevant technologies and exploring the possibility of collaboration through joint projects.
Formally signed and exchanged by the Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Information Technology and Communication, Mr. Pramod Mahajan, and the Kenya Minister of Communication, Mr. Musalia Mudavadi, the MoU also envisages cooperation between the two nations in the consultancy sector through experts for telecommunications, software, computers and related fields.
A key feature of the MoU is the technical cooperation it envisages in providing rural telecommunications using appropriate technologies. This would facilitate furthering of the objective of South-South cooperation. Another area identified in the agreement relates to manufacture of equipment based on C-Dot know-how.
The Joint Working Group would identify deliverables in communication technology besides facilitating product development and business linkages between the two countries. It will also work towards bringing about development, interaction and exchange of telecom professionals and business partnership between the two countries.
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