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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.

"These systems enable knowledge-sharing and collaboration among development practitioners worldwide, which will also increase transparency and efficiency in government procurement and also improve financial management and aid coordination," presented Fleeton

Other ministers present were Prof. Romain Murenzi for Scientific Research and Technology (President's Office), and Eng. Albert Butare (State minister, Energy and Communications).

The ministers said Rwanda was benefiting from the DGF's technological programs, saying that ICT was an integral part of the country's development strategy.

"Our ICT success lies in our partners, and we are honoured to have the Development Gateway as our partners," Musoni said.

Under the support of DGF, the government established a Regional ICT Research and Training Regional Outreach Center (RITC) based at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), which has helped train various people in ICT skills.

The firm has also helped create a Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Regional Outreach Centre, and Rwanda Development Gateway based at the National University of Rwanda (UNR).

DGF is currently operating in over 60 countries across the world with locally-owned entities that provide web-related services for local development needs including e-Government, e-Business, and e-Learning.

Autor(en)/Author(s): Edwin Musoni

Quelle/Source: All Africa, 11.10.2006