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World Bank President Robert Zoellick has commended the Rwandan government for its continued efforts towards the development of ICT saying that the country has emerged as a continental model in using technologies for development.

Zoellick said this during a video conference held in Addis Ababa Ethiopia where he was attending African Union Summit.

The video conference was linked to different African cities including Rwanda.

Read more: Rwanda: World Bank Boss Hails Country on ICT Development

The Ministry of Health (MOH) in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) ,is holding a week-long meeting in Kigali, aimed at discussing ways of simplifying procurement and operating of software used in e-health programs.

According to the national e-health coordinator in the MoH, Dr. Richard Gakuba, the software that are used in e-health programs are most times difficult to operate hence leading to problems in the systems.

Read more: Rwanda: Software Procurement in E-Health to Be Simplified

Great strides are being made to improve health care services through the use of ICT.

One of the most promising ICT development projects in RDB/IT division is the e-health project, which involves 3 main projects: the store and forward system, the tele-medicine video conferencing and the real time tele-medicine system.

According to Nkubito Bakuramutsa, they have now reached the final stage of the store and forward system, which is ready for use.

Read more: Rwanda: Better Health Care By Using ICT in Medicine

De-la Rue, a UK based firm in partnership with the national ID project is set to start issuing smart cards before the end of the year.

Smart cards are electronic gadgets that will link different services provided by different institutions like banks, super-markets, hospitals (e-health) and medical insurances among others.

According to Pascal Nyamulinda, the coordinator of the National ID project which has the mandate to process the smart cards, the cards will integrate many services using its multi purpose chip.

Read more: Rwanda: 'De-La Rue' to Issue 25,000 Smart Cards

Rwanda Development Board's Information Technology has a directorate whose focus is enabling rural communities access basic ICT services for the purposes of boosting their levels of competitiveness.

As part of this empowerment drive, RDB-IT has been installing rural telecentres throughout the country. It recently added 18 more telecentres under its community and rural access outreach programmes.

Read more: Rwanda: 18 More Telecentres to Boost Rural Access

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