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"Studies are launched as part of the implementation of the strategy without any real visibility on the part of the actors. These actions are undertaken in a dispersed and uncoordinated way, "said Ngom, speaking at a press conference organized by his institution.
In the opinion of the President of the OPTIC, Senegal must break with the past where several guidance documents are drawn up without any implementation because of the absence of steering and monitoring instruments.
Speaking of the fund CFAF 1 billion for start-ups, he said that this fund can be revised upwards, given all that generates the sector, to have much more impact and so it is expanded to Digital companies that no longer correspond to the "category of start-up"
Because these companies have significant financing needs for their innovative projects, Antoine Ngom advocates the establishment of a "Digital Innovation Act" As opposed to "startup" act "which is more restrictive, but also the access to the public order which constitutes" a real lever of diffusion of our solutions ".
For him, this should pass by the mutualisation of the infrastructures and the outsourcing, by making especially to operate the infrastructure of the ADIE by the private sector and to make by the latter the design and realization of solutions and services for the State of Senegal.
Moreover, he lamented the non-involvement, for the moment, the national private sector on the huge project "Smart Senegal", whose funding "very important" would come, according to him, from China. The aim of the Smart Senegal project is to disseminate information and communication technologies in the national economy.
In addition, the President of OPTIC underlined the difficulties facing access providers to Internet services (FAI), including the cost of frequencies which "remains ten times more expensive than in the entire sub-region" as well as high interconnection and collocation prices, making operational costs prohibitive.
the new 5 per cent special telecommunications levy (CST), which would replace all levies in the telecommunications sector, Mr. Ngom informed that this tax, being a tax, will be paid directly to the State Treasury, and may be intended for any other activity that is not related to the digital sector.
Therefore, he says, "Our point on the question remains the same, it is necessary that most of the funds raised in our sector go to the sector. "
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