Uganda: Model IT fund to wire up rural dwellers

Four years after it was established the Rural Communications Development Fund (RCDF) is yet to realise the dream of helping Ugandan villagers join the global village. Sustained by a one per cent levy off gross annual revenue of communications and service providers, the RCDF was established to ensure rural communications development through growth of infrastructure networks in the country. This was done after the government realised that there were likely to be imbalances in communication services between the rural and urban areas.