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The University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) has adopted IT and later ICT to enhance, teaching, learning and research for sometime now and in this paper the authors who were part of the team that introduced ICT at UMaT describe this adoption of ICT. The concept of ICT preparedness index is introduced and used to assess the advancement of UMaT in the areas that are most critical to the adoption of ICT in a university and to identify areas of strength and weakness in ICT at UMaT.