Mimos To Supply 30,000 PCs In Cuba

September 15, 2006 11:08 AM

Mimos To Supply 30,000 PCs In Cuba

From Mokhtar Hussein

HAVANA, Sept 15 (Bernama) -- Mimos Smart Computing Sdn Bhd has secured a
deal worth US$10 million to supply 30,000 personal computers to
Electronics Group of Cuba for the computerisation programme in this
Caribbean island nation.

Electronics Group is a government body tasked to provide computers for
schools, government offices and hospitals throughout Cuba.

Mimos Berhad president and CEO Abdul Wahab Abdullah signed the MoU for
the contract on behalf of the Mimos subsidiary while Electronics Group
head Ir Elio Pacheco signed for the Cuban corporation.

The ceremony was witnessed by Information Minister Datuk Zainuddin
Maidin and Cuba's Minister of Informatics and Communications Ramiro
Valdes Menendez at a hotel here.

Zainuddin then handed over 50 personal computers from Mimos to Menendez
who received them on behalf of Electronics Group.

According to a Cuban official, the country of 11 million population was
embarking on a massive computerisation programme, especially to equip
schools, hospitals and government offices in the rural areas.

Currently, Cuba imports computer hardware mainly from China.

Speaking at the ceremony, Zainuddin said for more than 30 years,
Malaysia and Cuba had formed a collaboration that had become an example
of a successful South-South cooperation.

He said Universiti Sains Malaysia was working with Cuba's Finlay
Institute to develop vaccines for tuberculosis and meningitis while
Cuban scientists were working with their Malaysian counterparts in
anti-cancer research.

Abdul Wahab said Exim Bank of Malaysia had agreed to provide credit
facility to enable Mimos Smart Computing to supply the computers.

-- BERNAMA

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