SM Krishna inaugurates 2nd phase of Pan-African e-Network Project
merisarkar news service
New Delhi, August 16, 2010
An example of Indo-African friendship: SM Krishna
The External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Monday inaugurated the second phase of the Pan-African e-Network Project covering twelve countries at TCIL Bhawan. High Commissioners and Ambassadors of African countries and senior officers of MEA were present on the occasion.
Mr. Krishana held online interaction on bilateral matters with senior ministers and other high-ranking dignitaries in each of the twelve African countries individually through the network. He urged all the countries to take full advantage of the complete range of services offered by India in the tele-education and tele-medicine fields.
Inaguarating the network he described the e-Network Project as one of the finest examples of the growing partnership between India and Africa. He noted that this is the biggest project of distance education and tele-medicine ever undertaken in Africa.
The project is also equipped to support e-governance, e-commerce, infotainment, resource mapping and meteorological and other services in the African countries, besides providing VVIP connectivity among the Heads of State of the African countries through a highly secure closed satellite network.
