The report was prepared by the ministry in collaboration with the ICT department of the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), the Rwanda Utilities and Regulatory Agency (RURA) and the National Institute of Statistics (NISR). It also includes data from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the department of economic and social affairs of the United Nations Population Division.
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The minister was reacting to claims about institutions that failed to update their websites regularly.
Already a five-year literacy awareness campaign is underway that will raise the capacity of at least 200,000 to have some working knowledge in ICT.
The teachers will have the responsibility to train other teachers from their respective schools, a strategy the government has designed to promote and build teachers capacity to effectively teach computer skills or ICT.
The campaign kicked off in Rulindo District, attended by thousands of local residents, where different companies demonstrated their online and SMS-based services.