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Govt to engage MPC on e-govt services

Malawi Government will utilise the growing ICT portfolios of the Malawi Posts Corporation (MPC) in the delivery of the ambitious e-government project, Vice-President Saulos Chilima revealed yesterday.

Chilima made the revelation when he officially opened the 33rd Ordinary Session of the Pan African Postal Union (PAPU) Administrative Council meeting in Lilongwe.

He said the move was an indictment of government’s growing confidence in the MPC’s turnaround and general postal services development in the country.

“Malawi Posts Corporation with a footprint of 181 post offices and 154 agencies countrywide, together with courier operators is making steady progress in postal development. The government of Malawi will soon engage MPC on delivery of e-government services,” said Chilima.

On the continental postal network, Chilima said an increasingly integrated global community meant that pan -African Postal business are also interlinked at a pace that creates greater challenges for regulators and governments.

“Africa hosts 40 percent of the least developed countries as far as post is concerned. Africa has the highest postal outlets that are not connected electronically. Africa’s percentage of decline in mail volume is high compared with other regions,” added Chilima.

Earlier, director general of Universal Postal Union Bishar Hussein branded proliferation of outside private sector players on the African postal scene as “unfair competition.”

“I do not understand the licensing of hundreds of private courier services on the African market. These well-oiled companies do not have social responsibilities, so they are creating unfair competition, especially as African postal services cannot enter their own markets,” said Hussein.

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