Airtel Rwanda has launched its three-month promotion to give chances to its clients and agents to win huge amount of money every time they transact on Airtel Money.
The campaign by Airtel Rwanda dubbed 'Bukya Uri Millionaire' is intended to promote cashless economy. Lucky customers of Airtel win cash prizes when they carry out transactions such as sending and receiving money on their phones, paying for water, electricity, school fees, pay for e-government services such as Irembo among others. Airtel customers who transact using their Airtel Money and Tigo Cash accounts will be entered into a lucky draw in which 25 clients will share the daily prize of Rwf 500,000 and the weekly prize of Rwf 2,000,000 and the monthly prize of Rwf 10,000,000 in the cash box machine, as reported by The New Times.
Read more: Airtel Rwanda unveils promotional campaign to encourage cashless economy
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
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
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.