Q FM Africa's Modern Radio
Secretary to the Cabinet Rowland Msiska says the recent cases of leaked classified government documents require effective mechanisms to track down perpetrators.
Speaking during the official launch of the Government Wide Area Network (GWAN) in Lusaka today, Dr Msiska says there is need to work on guidelines to end the leaking of such important documents to the public.
Dr. Msiska states that many reasons prompted government to engage ZAMTEL to come up with a network system that will link all government ministries and agencies and use one network.
He says one of the major reasons is to harmonize and consolidate internet services across the various individual ministries and agencies, which previously had independent internet providers.
Dr Msiska explains that in 2013 ZAMTEL was chosen to provide an Internet protocol transport wide area network required to improve service delivery by all government ministries and agencies across the country.
He says ZAMTEL has successfully delivered phase 1 of the project which has seen the deployment of a highly secure, robust, efficient, scalable and reliable network, connecting a total of 24 government ministries including cabinet office, office of the Auditor General and State House.
Dr. Msiska reveals that phase two of the project will connect all government ministries and agencies in the ten provincial centers, with the last phase connecting all the districts in the country.