The Government of Angola created a National Commission for Information Technology  by Decree no. 6/2002 of 4 April 2002. This Commission has elaborated a plan known as "Strategy for The Development of Information technology 2000-2010."

The Commission has also created an Excellence Center for the implementation of the projects in the plan. The Center, named CENAPATI, is at the moment responsible for the Academic and Scientific Backbone. Considering the Private Sector Enterprises as essential partners, the Commission held in July 2002 a meeting in Luanda with several of the business agents of this sectors and settled with them Collaboration Schemes for the next years.

The Commission, through CENAPATI, is conducting some projects including e-government and telecentres.

Sources:
1. Angola and the Information Society Posted by Secretariat, UN ICT TF.

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