Statistics body, Uganda Bureau of Statistics has handed over 60, 247 tablets that have been previously used during the 2024 national housing and population census to the Ministry of ICT and National Housing.
According to UBOS Executive Director, Dr. Chris Mukiza, the 60,247 include 36,000 that will go to the Electoral Commission for use for the forthcoming 2026 elections.
“Of them, 36,000 tablets will go to Electoral Commission for their election management, 23,897 will go to local governments to strengthen PDM information system at the community level. This means each parish will get two tablets while each sub county community development officer will get a tablet to make 1496 tablets and town council CDOs will get 580 tablets among others,” Mukiza said on Monday.
He said another 350 tablets will go to Operation Wealth Creation to help in monitoring of other government programs.
The Ministry of ICT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Aminah Zawedde who received the gadgets said the gesture shows government is working as a team.
“As government we are able to share resources and reduce on cost of operation of government work. These will come in handy now that elections are on the doorway to enable Electoral Commission get ready for the electoral process,” Dr.Zawedde said.
“We had already got concerns by people at the parish level that they don’t have enough devices to carry out data collection and register beneficiaries for PDM. Now that we have these devices, it is going to make work easy since we will be collecting data in real time and be able to make informed decisions in time.”
