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China donates computer equipment to the Congolese Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications, and the Digital Economy for Mossaka Digital training center

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$30,785
Commitment Year•2018Country of Activity•CongoDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•CongoSector•CommunicationsFlow Type•Grant

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Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Nov 12, 2018
Start (actual)
Nov 12, 2018
End (actual)
Nov 12, 2018

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This project was to donate computer equipment to the Congolese Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications, and the Digital Economy (French: Ministère des Postes, des Télécommunications et de l’Economie Numérique, or MPTEN) for the Mossaka Digital training center. MPTEN is located in Brazzaville, the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo. Brazzaville is located in the Brazzaville Department on the southeast border of the country. MPTEN is located between the Denis Sassou Nguesso Boulevard (French: Boulevard Denis Sassou Nguesso) and the Gare de Brazzaville, which is the Brazzaville railway station for the Congo-Ocean Railway Line (French: Ligne de Chemin de Fer Congo-Océan). More detailed locational information about MPTEN can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3291519944#map=19/-4.26949/15.28935.

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Congo Ministry of Posts, Telephones and Telecommunications (MPTT)

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China donates computer equipment to the Congolese Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications, and the Digital Economy for Mossaka Digital training center

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Project narrative

On November 12, 2018, the Chinese Embassy handed over a donation of computer equipment to the Congolese Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and the Digital Economy to support the project of equipping the digital training center for young people in Mossaka. The donation came from China's onsite storage, including laptops, desktops, printers, uninterruptible power supplies or inverters, and whiteboards of different sizes. According to the ADIAC source, this donation is estimated to be worth 17,000,000 CFA francs. Ma Fulin, the Chinese ambassador to the Congo, attended the handover ceremony.