March, 15th 2018, First meeting of Benin SAC-TIC project Steering Committee

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Rachel ARAYE_1
19 March 2018 09:59 UTC
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Establishment of a warning system for water discharges from the SONEB and education in the hygiene of drinking water by the use of ICTs


Committee members

The Steering committee presided by SONEB ( Society for water supply in urban area) includes eight other organizations like water consumers association (CNAC); SOLUTIS Company which develop the SAC-TIC Platform; PNE-Benin, EAA-Benin (Water and Sanitation for Africa), National Direction of Hygiene and Sanitation (DNSP); DGEau (Water Directorate ) and National Direction of ICT.

The outcomes expected from the meeting are i) Steering Committee members have a good knowledge of SAC-TIC project and its activities progress and ii) Steering Committee members elaborate guidelines for going forward project activities.
Through activities implementation assessment , Steering Committee members noted that in general, planned activities , are going on correctly and the SAC-TIC platform is expected to be available in April.

Recommendations issued from the meeting aim to i) operate best options in order to reach the maximum of water consumers by the Platform ; ii) improve water consumers capacities using ICT; iii) develop collaboration with Information and Communication Ministry in order to accelerate mobile phone connection negotiations.