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willing to fund future projects.
Perhaps, in order for the government to improve its m-Readiness level all responsible
government employees and senior managers as well as politicians need to understand
the great potential of ICT and MWT for service delivery. Education and sharing of
information is considered one of the effective ways for convincing politicians and senior
government officials about the benefits of MWT, also facilitating understanding it with
illustrative existing examples. At the early stage of decision making regarding
technology use, it is advisable for the government not to utilise new technology with
unproven track record.
While the current e-Government deployment project is making a good progress towards
completion, the e-Government policy is yet to be implemented. It is imperative for the
design of e-Government policy to have a dedicated section pertaining to MWT and
ensuring that it is kept up to date. One way the government can maintain standards
across all government organisations is through consolidation of all departmental ICTs.
In that way all departments can be given guidelines and are updated with the use of the
latest technologies.
In addition the government should promote the use of one laptop per child 1 (OLPC), a
concept that was introduced in the recent PacINET conference mentioned earlier. The
idea is that all children having access to the technology at an early age will greatly boost
the learning process which in future can help assist with the issues of lack of trainings
and skills. Educational and training, especially early age education may help e-
1 OLPC is a project of One Laptop per Child Association, Inc. OLPC, is a U.S. non-profit organization
aiming to “create educational opportunities for world's poorest children by providing each child with a
rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative,
joyful, self-empowered learning” (Wikipedia, 2011d)
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