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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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