Rwanda: ICT Investors Urged to Go Rural

2 December 2013

The private sector must invest more in Information Communication Technology (ICT) to help spread it to the grassroots, the Minister of Youth and ICT, Philbert Nsengimana has said. Nsengimana was speaking during a two-day ICT awareness campaign in Musanze District last week. The campaign aimed at promoting and building citizens 'capacity and knowledge in ICT.

"The private sector should invest in ICT and spread it countrywide to address the demands of all people willing to learn and use ICT," he said. The ICT literacy campaign, officially launched in January, in Rulindo District in the Northern Province, is targetting over 200,000 people during the first phase of the five-year awareness campaign.

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