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| Uganda Parliament |
The Ugandan Parliament has passed into
law the Uganda Communications Regulatory Authority Bill 2012, making it the
Uganda Communications Act 2012. The legislators also created a content
committee to attend to complaints of content abuse from different media
channels, the Monitor reported. The state
minister for ICT, Nyombi Thembo, said the new law seeks to
clarify the merging of the two regulatory bodies, the Broadcasting Council and
the Uganda Communications Commission, but leaves out a lot needed to support
the communication industry. Thus as a result
players, regulators and the ICT ministry are seeking to ensure that the
enforcement of a National ICT Policy takes into consideration issues like
technological changes, innovations and components and developments in the ICT
industry.