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Rwanda: Information Technology to Improve Statistics Efficiency
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Focus Media (Kigali)
ANALYSIS
23 June 2008
Posted to the web 23 June 2008
Sam Ruburika
According to NISR director Louis Munyakazi, in 2006 Rwanda ranked the 26th in Africa in terms of delivering actual statistical information. Last year, it moved up 20 places and to become 6th, while Egypt ranks number one. "I believe that with the partnership between RITA and NISR, we can compete for the first spot," Munyakazi said.
The agreement seeks to strengthen the mutual collaboration between the two institutions, with RITA providing ICT support to NISR, and the latter measuring the impact of ICT policies in the country.
The MoU, as Munyakazi pointed out, would offer various advantages to the statistics agency. In the first place, in order for data to become useful for policy or information purposes, the statisticians have often to carry out complicated analytical operations involving matrixes and variables, which would be made a lot easier when RITA provides appropriate matrix software.
Moreover, digitalized data will allow reducing printing expenses associated with making voluminous reports, while increasing the efficiency of their production.
Lastly, moving from paper to digital data would obviously also facilitate their storage, requiring less physical space.
RITA, for its part, will obviously also benefit from the collaboration. Given its mission to use information technology to reduce poverty both economically and socially, NISR will help in measuring the impact of ICT policies and in identifying areas in which RITA needs to improve or adjust improvement is needed.
"This is an essential commitment which will have a positive impact on RITA's ability to realize its core mission of creating an information-rich and knowledge-based economy in line with the aspirations of the vision of the nation," the director general of the agency, Nkubito Bakuramutsa, commented.
Mr. Nkubito said that since RITA is an information and communication technology implementation agency, it recognizes that the role of data collection, analysis and dissemination requires the use of reliable state of the art information technology infrastructure.
Mr. Munyakazi added that the cooperation will help the NISR assume the leading role in improving the capacity of the private and public sector, as well as partners, to use reliable information for decision-making by coordinating national effort to collect, analyze, document, disseminate and archive reliable data with in an integrated and sustainable network.
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The cooperation will encourage and further develop the collaboration between the two agencies through the exchange of the know-how and comparative advantage aimed at improving capacity for both parties in their respective mission.
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