Article: Uganda: THE ANALYST: Uganda gets its first GPS unit.

Byline: Mamta03

The government of Uganda has acquired its first ever Global Positioning System (GPS) unit. Information available to The Analyst indicates that the government, through the Ministry of Border Defence, purchased a TomTom One GPS unit last week at 80 Euros (about Shs 240,000) from Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

GPS relies on space satellites to pinpoint one s location. Among other applications, it is used for navigation, surveying and mapping. A team of eight military specialists were dispatched to Amsterdam to purchase the GPS unit. Although a TomTom can be ordered online, the government considered the purchase too sensitive to be conducted ...

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