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Monday, 16.09.2024
eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001

RW: Ruanda / Rwanda

  • Rwandaonline Commences Nationwide Sensitisation Drive

    At least 581 village heads in Bugesera District gathered in Nyamata town on Tuesday to learn about Irembo; a one-stop portal for e-Government services.

    The session, the first in a three-month long countrywide tour, allowed local leaders and members of the public to familiarise themselves with the e-Government platform and how it would provide government services online with efficiency and reliability.

  • Smart Rwanda initiative will drive ICT growth

    Ericsson and The Rwanda Ministry of Youth and ICT have come together in an initiative called 'Smart Rwanda' that is geared towards connecting, innovating and transforming Rwanda into a knowledge economy to drive Rwanda's global competitiveness and job creation.

    The initiative aims to allow Rwanda to become a highly competitive, agile, open and innovative smart economy with the most favourable business climate, which attracts large-scale investments and rewards entrepreneurship, therefore enabling fast growth and exports, leveraging ICT innovations and transforming the nation into a smart society.

  • The Diaspora Can Help Fuel Rwanda's Technology and Digital Ambitions

    As Rwanda day 2013 comes to London for the first time, let me take this opportunity to talk about the role that the Rwandan business community in the diaspora can playing by embracing the creation of Rwanda startup culture and make a difference in creating much needed jobs at the same time benefiting from the growth of the ICT sector.

    Rwanda Day is a periodical event that is held in different countries around the world and brings together Rwandans and friends of Rwanda to reaffirm their core national value, celebrate the country's progress and discuss ways they can best be part of Rwanda's socio-economic transformation.

  • Twitter-Rwanda: Government encourages use of Twitter

    Information Communication Technology - The Ministry in the President's Office in Charge of Information Communication Technology (ICT) has embarked on a campaign to enable the public use tweeter social media network to keep in touch with customers and business partners. The campaign follows the newly introduced application dubbed 'MTN Twitter SMS', which allows MTN Rwanda subscribers to create a twitter account using their Mobile phone and as well as send tweets via SMS.

    Speaking to the Sunday Times yesterday, Felly Kalisa, Senior Expert in charge of Programme Implementation and Analysis at the Ministry in the President's Office in Charge of ICT, said people can tweet using SMS on their mobile phones.

  • US: Virginia: Telemedicine Program Gives U.S. Doctors Glimpse of Care in Rwanda—and Vice Versa

    The patient was in terrible shape. She had been stabbed by her husband in the neck and had lost her voice, indicating the knife had gone through her airway. Air was rushing the wound. The biggest concern for the anesthesiologist on duty was to find a way to secure the woman’s airway during surgery, knowing that placing a breathing tube down her throat might worsen the injury.

    But this wasn’t Europe or North America. It was Rwanda. It took the patient three days to get to the hospital because she lived so far away. And there was no fiber-optic endoscope to perform intubation and to examine her vocal cords. The hospital did not even have a range of anesthetics at hand—only halothane.

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