Posted by sociolingo on March 13, 2008
Source: The Soul Beat 103
Youth Association for Dissemination of Development Information (YADDI) - Rwanda
Launched in January 2005, YADDI is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that aims to address ICT issues in Rwanda through the creation of community telecentres. Focusing especially on young people, YADDI facilitates access to development information through the internet and other ICT tools by providing computer and internet training and services. Specifically, the organisation has established both a Centre for Dissemination of Development Information (CDDI) and a multipurpose telecentre that provides ICT services.
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Posted by sociolingo on February 18, 2008
Source: Reporters Without Borders
Rwanda - Annual Report 2008
Area : 26,340 sq. km.
Population : 9,464,000.
Languages : Kinyarwanda, French, English, Swahili.
Head of state : Paul Kagame.
Appalling relations persisted between the government and a section of the independent press, especially the more highly critical publications. The strength of government hostility pushed some newspapers into closure. Meanwhile journalist Tatiana Mukakibibi was finally released … after 11 years in custody.
Even though the government denies it, Rwanda’s independent press is forced to live under relentless harassment from the highest levels of the state. President Paul Kagame turned on Emmanuel Niyonteze, a journalist on the bi-monthly Umuseso, who questioned him at a press conference at the start of the year about his rapprochement with Ivorian president, Laurent Gbagbo. The state-run press also displayed antagonism towards some media, including the US-run public Voice of America (VOA). One journalist on state-owned weekly Imvaho Nshya, even called at a 2 February press conference for the closure of VOA, accused of favouring the Rwandan opposition. The government in June 2006 expelled without explanation the correspondent for French public Radio France Internationale (RFI), Sonia Rolley, then in November ordered the closure of its transmitter after breaking off diplomatic relations with Paris.
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Posted by sociolingo on August 14, 2007
Seen on Pambazuka News:
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/9/35/580020
The Ugandan Government is mobilizing funds to send primary and
secondary school teachers to Rwanda for training in Information and
Communication Technology(ICT). Speaking at the Uganda-Rwanda
Education Joint Expo in Kigali recently, the education minister,
Geraldine Namirembe Bitamazire, said “Rwanda has taken serious
strides in the development of ICT to achieve its development goals
and it’s a good lesson for us.”
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