Expresso Telecom is working with Rwanda Online to showcase the e-Government service developed for Rwanda to other governments across Central and West Africa as part of its ongoing strategy to provide new services that will help improve the lives of people across Africa. Expresso Telecom has an exclusive agreement to sell “Irembo”. The e-Government platform developed by Rwanda Online is a public/private initiative with the Government of Rwanda.
Read more: Expresso Telecom partners with RwandaOnline on e-government
Judging from nearly every speaker at the ongoing Transform Africa Summit, there is a lot of optimism in the air as far as embracing digital technology as a tool for economic advancement is concerned.
The fourth edition of the summit, being held under the theme, “Accelerating Africa’s single digital market”, also came with some good news; Ghana and Zambia were the latest countries to join the Smart Africa initiative, bringing the total to 24 countries.
Read more: RW: Good, the youth are disrupting the digital status quo
The Rwanda Land Management and Use Authority has announced that transactions related to transfer of land title by sale will be done via Irembo portal effective May.
The Rwanda Land Management and Use Authority (RLMUA), has announced that transactions related to transfer of land title by sale will be done via Irembo portal effective May 01, 2018.
In 2006, the Government of Rwanda partnered with the International Telecommunications Union to host the Connect Africa Summit that was held in Kigali the next year.
The leaders of our continent understood that the rapid advances of information and communication technology represented an opportunity for the continent to leapfrog the agrarian and industrial stages of development and compete with the rest of the world in the information age, with a better level playing field.
Read more: RW: Connecting the continent, accelerating transformation
Subscribers of the community based health insurance (Mutuelle de santé) across the country will from next financial year no longer be required to show their subscription cards to access medical services.
Officials at Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) said in an interview with Sunday Times on Friday that they will roll out an e-payment system in the next fiscal year 2018-2019 whereby clients will pay their annual premiums using the services of Irembo and MobiCash.
Read more: RW: Mutuelle subscribers to use IDs to access healthcare