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Samstag, 14.12.2024
Transforming Government since 2001

RW: Ruanda / Rwanda

  • Rwanda bringing government services to you online

    Rwandans and businesses can now easily access government services with fewer struggles thanks to information and communications technology; this is according to Alline Kabbatende, chief operating officer of RwandaOnline Platform Limited.

    Kabbatende said this was poised to help the east African country’s move towards a cashless economy and improve how people use government services.

    “RwandaOnline has developed an e-government portal for Rwandan citizens and business to access government services,” added Kabbatende.

  • Rwanda hosts 2015 e-governance forum

    African nation Rwanda will play host to the 2015 Commonwealth e-Governance Forum Africa, which takes place from 24-25 March.

    The forum is organised by Rwanda's Ministry of Youth and ICT (MYICT) and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO).

    The CTO is an international body, which is engaged in multilateral collaboration of ICT and uses its experience and expertise to support its members in integrating ICT to deliver interventions that enrich people within the Commonwealth and beyond.

  • Rwanda Launches Kigali Innovation City to Drive Technological Development

    Establishing innovation hubs and fostering tech education drives entrepreneurship by empowering individuals to create localized solutions to pressing challenges. This approach enables African nations to develop indigenous technologies in sectors such as agriculture, healthcare, and education, decreasing their dependence on foreign innovations.

    The Rwandan government, led by Prime Minister Dr. Edouard Ngirente, has inaugurated the construction phase of the Kigali Innovation City (KIC), a major initiative aimed at advancing technological innovation in Rwanda. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 10 in Kigali’s Special Economic Zone, Gasabo District.

  • Rwanda, GSMA to increase broadband access

    The Rwandan Ministry of Youth and ICT and the GSMA have announced an agreement to undertake a series of initiatives to increase citizens’ access to mobile broadband technologies across the country.

    This landmark development takes place in the lead-up to the GSMA’s annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a key gathering for African stakeholders with over 46 African governments attending last year.

  • Rwanda's plans to advance digital literacy

    Rwanda's ministry of Youth and ICT has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL) programme to advance digital literacy in that country.

    The ICDL programme enables the proficient use of ICT to empower individuals, organisations and society, through the development, promotion and delivery of quality certification programmes.

  • Rwanda's role in connecting Africa

    This is already my third visit to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in the past year. Rwanda itself is a relatively small country with few natural resources and poor economic ties with the outside world. As such, one could argue that there is little here to write about.

    However, the reason I have been here more often than to any of the larger African nations is that its national strategy has turned it into a center for international conferences, where many of the future goals and perspectives of the continent are hammered out. In that respect, it has something in common with Addis Ababa.

  • 'Smart Rwanda' to Power ICT for Transformation

    The government has started a new initiative that seeks to apply the power of ICT in the development agenda to transform the social and economic development of the country.

    The plan, dubbed "Smart Rwanda Days", is a citizen-centred business-friendly, accessible and sustainable information and service delivery chain, which will be realised through public-private partnership.

    To realise Smart Rwanda Days, government, in partnership with the World Bank, yesterday hosted an event to help stakeholders develop a shared vision for the initiative.

  • ‘Internet for All’ initiative targets to connect five million Rwandans

    Rwanda is set to serve up to five million new internet users by 2020 under a new initiative, “Rwanda Internet for All,” which was initiated through the Ministry of Youth and ICT and the World Economic Forum (WEF) earlier this year.

    Speaking during the ‘Rwanda Internet for All Forum,’ Jean-Philbert Nsengimana, the youth and ICT minister, said the initiative is part of the bigger project to create millions of internet users in the Northern Corridor and beyond.

  • 5 million Rwandans to Get Internet Skills Under Digital Program

    Rwandans are required to log onto an online public platform to apply for an Identity card, driving permit, land title and many more – gradually, the use of papers will become history.

    In the next two years, about 5 million Rwandans will have acquired skills to use the internet to help them in their daily activities. The government targets to significantly digitise the population by 2019.

  • A look at Rwanda’s effort to bridge the digital gap

    With digital transformation being continuously positioned as a key enabler for the country’s development agenda, is Rwanda ready for the transition? A World Bank study and analysis on the subject shows that there is need to adjust approach in a number of sectors to make the most of the trend.

  • A team of Mozambicans in Rwanda on e-ID card study tour

    A team of Mozambicans is in Rwanda since Tuesday to study ways of introducing electronic national identity cards like those used in Rwanda.

    In an interview with APA on Wednesday, the Mozambican coordinator of the ID card project, Paul Fobes said the project was part of Mozambique’s e-government strategies to enhance the implementation of other strategies in the electronic world.

  • Afrika: Infrastructure challenge affecting internet usage, says new report

    Internet is a key component in Africa’s economic development but it is not serving to its potential and a lot more has to be done, a new Internet Society Report indicates.

    The report, “Promoting the African Internet Economy,” was released last week. It shows that there is need to address the lack of local content infrastructure in African countries, such as data centers, routers, servers in order to drive wider and deeper internet usage.

  • Airtel Rwanda unveils promotional campaign to encourage cashless economy

    Airtel Rwanda has launched its three-month promotion to give chances to its clients and agents to win huge amount of money every time they transact on Airtel Money.

    The campaign by Airtel Rwanda dubbed 'Bukya Uri Millionaire' is intended to promote cashless economy. Lucky customers of Airtel win cash prizes when they carry out transactions such as sending and receiving money on their phones, paying for water, electricity, school fees, pay for e-government services such as Irembo among others. Airtel customers who transact using their Airtel Money and Tigo Cash accounts will be entered into a lucky draw in which 25 clients will share the daily prize of Rwf 500,000 and the weekly prize of Rwf 2,000,000 and the monthly prize of Rwf 10,000,000 in the cash box machine, as reported by The New Times.

  • Big dreams for Rwanda's ICT sector - Success story is grabbing global attention

    "The Internet is a needed public utility as much as water and electricity," declared President Paul Kagame at the Transform Africa summit, held in Kigali, Rwanda's capital city, last October to discuss the future of broadband in Africa.

    The choice of Kigali as host did not surprise Information Communication Technology (ICT) experts; Mr. Kagame's government takes ICT so seriously that it aims to creating an ICT infrastructure comparable to any in the developed world. The choice was also not surprising since Rwanda hosted the Connect Africa summit in 2007 that championed broadband connectivity for the continent.

  • Big dreams for Rwanda’s ICT sector

    Success story is grabbing global attention

    “The internet is a needed public utility as much as water and electricity,” declared President Paul Kagame at the Transform Africa summit held in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city, last October to discuss the future of broadband in Africa.

    The choice of Kigali as host did not surprise information and communication technology (ICT) experts; Mr Kagame’s government takes ICT so seriously that it aims to create an ICT infrastructure comparable to any in the developed world. The choice was also not surprising since Rwanda hosted the Connect Africa summit in 2007 that championed broadband connectivity for the continent.

  • Bringing government services online for Rwandans

    Digital innovations for development appear to be the theme of the 2015 Transform Africa event in Rwanda, among them is an online platform created to establish connectivity between Rwanda's government and its citizens for access to government services.

    According to the website, Irembo is the "one-stop portal for e-Government services", a platform for the provision of government services online.

    "We already are live, we have five government services online and we will be having about 30 services by end of this year," said Clement Uwajeneza, CEO of Rwanda Online Platform Limited.

  • Central Bank of Rwanda Unveils Data Centre to Improve Information Security

    In a bid to modernize its practice and general information management and security, the Central Bank of Rwanda has unveiled a state of the art data center that centralizes key systems easing access and interconnectivity.

    Key systems used at BNR such as the Rwanda integrated payments processing system (RIPPS), FINA-the system used to collect data from financial institutions and TeamMate, another system which enhances onsite inspection activities and the regional payments and settlement system (REPPS), Bloomberg and Reuters financial news services have all been backed on the system which has reportedly cost the Bank over Frw 300 million.

  • Community tele-centres to be set up in Rwanda

    Rwanda's Minister in the Office of the President in charge of ICT, Dr. Ignace Gatare, officiated over the Rwanda Telecenter Network (RTN) partners and stakeholders' forum which aimed at deepening the awareness of the role of tele-centres in the country's development as well as build partnerships for the deployment of the centres.

    The telecentre forum intends to give a platform for telecentre practitioners for learning and sharing experience; discuss subjects like sustainability, connectivity and relevant content .More importantly, the forum will offer to the participants a unique occasion to exchange their understanding and views on how to transform Telecentres from a mere ICT access point to community service and knowledge hub.

  • Congo, Rwanda to enhance cooperation in ICT

    Congo and Rwanda have agreed to strengthen their cooperation in the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

    The agreement was announced on Friday in Brazzaville, after a meeting between Thierry Moungalla and Jean Philbert Nsengimana, Congolese and Rwandan Ministers in charge of ICT respectively.

    The Rwandan Minister highlighted the efforts made by his country in the past 15 years to connect to the world through fiber optic technology.

  • e-Rwanda: Innovative Strides in Healthcare

    From time immemorial, our world has been ravaged by epidemics and pandemics. The vagaries of disease are evident, especially in Africa. Poverty and disease have caused unnecessary suffering and often leaves people, especially the poor, helplessly at its mercy.

    This problem has called for innovative clinical, technical and developmental strategies, which seek to transform the country's economy from agriculturally based to knowledge-based. Such a transformation definitely calls for investment in technology and highly skilled software developers.

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