The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) aims to strengthen performance discipline within the organisation by 2030.

This was revealed by CRAN Communications and International Relations Manager Jairus Kapenda during an ICT stakeholders' engagement held at Oshakati.

Kapenda said CRAN also aims to create a trusted regulatory environment by 2030 in order to boost stakeholder and consumer trust, market confidence, and competitiveness.

He further stated that the authority seeks to establish a modern, effective, and adaptive regulatory framework that embraces emerging technologies and enhances regulatory effectiveness.

"We also want to be a digitally enabled, high-performing institution where digital innovation and service delivery should be at least an institutional framework; we also want to be a sustainable and future-ready organisation with workforce readiness and cultural finance resilience."

NAMPOST Executive Human Capital Ekonia Mundjanima also presented their institution's overview.

He says they were established by an Act of Parliament to conduct postal services, run the savings bank, and enable money transfer locally and internationally.

NAMPOST has 148 post office points across Namibia, with 12 new branches opened in six months.

They have got over 250 thousand grant recipients, and over 30 thousand of them are Oshana residents who are using their branches to collect their social grants per month.

At the moment, NAMPOST has over 280 thousand active smart card customers.

"The biggest progress as far as NAMPOST is concerned, and this is what we are looking at in the next few months; by August this year, we should be able to roll out what we call NAMPOST ATMs. This is to enable financial inclusion so that our elderly people don't need to go and queue up at the post office anymore; they can go to a NAMPOST ATM and withdraw whatever amount they want conveniently."