The government is now working with the private sector to identify innovative, information-driven and ICT enabled solutions to boost economic growth.
The solutions referred to as 'SMART' are expected to be a citizen-centric and business-friendly, accessible and sustainable Information and Service Delivery ecosystem through public and private investments.
This policy has opened up opportunities for various computer software designers, and computer programmers to showcase their talent.
"SMART Rwanda will harness the transformative powers of ICTs and their cross-cutting nature to help increase the productivity of other sectors," the Minister of Youth and ICT Jean Philbert Nsengimana said last week.
He said, "We aim at doing things smarter, which is to do more with less."
He said in order to ensure sustainability of such development initiatives, the government is looking at using Public-Private Partnership (PPP) models, and Green technologies.
The' Smart Solution', which mainly means the use of smart gadgets in ICT will help in revolutionalise the service delivery, cut down time and costs in access to services and also improve access to information mainly to rural folk.
"For example, we are looking at where a farmer can access a market using their smart phones in their homes and they are able to their products online," Anand Sharma, General Manager at Techno Brain Rwanda, said.
Sharma said through the creation of 'Smart Villages', farmers will be able to use ICT in boosting their production in agriculture thus increase incomes in their homes.
The country is looking at Smart solutions to contribute to rural development and reduction of poverty to less than 30% through deployment of SMART Villages throughout the country.
"What are we are doing is to help farmers learn how to use these solutions to help solve some of the challenges they are facing in the day to day work in farming," he said.
Indeed, Dorothy K. Gordon, Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT is optimistic that through innovations in technology, Africa will be able to put to use its resources and achieve growth.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Dias Nyesiga
Quelle/Source: AllAfrica, 24.06.2013
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