IfG.CC - The Potsdam eGovernment Competence Center

The government will start advertising public tenders on the internet beginning next year, Finance and Economic Planning minister, James Musoni, has said. Musoni said this was in line with the government's policy of transparency and faster services. He was speaking yesterday at Hotel Intercontinental, during an interactive meeting between several government officials and the visiting Chief Executive Officer of the Development Gateway Foundation (DGF), Mark Fleeton. In his presentation, Fleeton highlighted some of the new technological systems such as dgMarket (digital market) that eases transparence and saving for government procurements, Aid management platform which is a web-based information sharing system that captures and streamlines aid management processes between developing countries and donors.

Rwandans can now fill in passport application forms online and track them on the internet to find out whether they are ready or not.

The Rwanda Immigration and Emigration website also has downloadable visa forms in portable digital format (PDF).

Visitors from as far as North America and Europe need not travel looking for the nearest Rwandan Embassy, the whole process is summarised online at the click of a mouse and a print out will grant one an authorised entry facility into the central African country. Surfer applicants can use either the English or French versions.

Senator Wellars Gasamagera has asked intellectual in the country to work with the parliament for an effective role of shaping the information society through use of information and communications technology (ICT), as a tool to transform Rwanda from agricultural to a knowledge based economy.

Gasamagera made the call on October 6, during a one-day international workshop that brought together development gateway managers from 13 African countries, ICT directors from different organizations, Researchers and students in the master's degree program in ICT.