Nasra Bishumba
5 June 2005
Kigali — A local institute, CTC-Institute of Information Technology, has finally completed opening up IT centres in all provinces of Rwanda.
According to Jaffar Bagonza, a Principle at the Institute, each centre has at least 20 computers connected with Internet for the students.
"These centers will go a long way to spread the level of computer literacy in rural areas. The ultimate long term strategic goal of CTC is to have at least two centres in each province by the year 2006. It is hoped that these centres will improve on information processing, retrieval and dissemination," Bagonza says.
Bagonza says that CTC intends to use the centres to offer Rwandans end user courses such as word-processing, spreadsheets, graphic design, presentations, database management and design, Internet and e-mail.
In order to address gender parity in acquiring ICT knowledge, the institute intends to offer many scholarships to females as incentives.
In Kigali, CTC is currently running a number of courses which include Computer applications and operating systems, computer hardware and maintenance, networking and communication system installation and other professional courses leading to International certification.
By the end of 2006, CTC will unveil its state of the art ultra modern computer assembling plant that will assemble computers in Kigali instead of importing them from outside. This will save foreign exchange and revolutionalise ICT for Rwanda, the CTC official said.
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