awesome Rwanda

Rwanda goes global

Kigali the capital city of Rwanda with approximately 1milion people who dwell as of 2012 reports, is located at  the centre of entire country surrounded by ridges  and valley with an utmost view is built on one among four main ridges.

Regardless being hilly town huge buildings of most hotels and headquarters of different organizations and government offices are located. A well arranged and constructed infrastructure on those landscapes can be easily seen and became other tourist attractions.

The valleys and ridges also portray country economical power of its people, the poor lives in valley side and their counterparts rich at hill side. Despite social differences of being poor or rich the government policy on bringing Rwandan together is so practical referred to “SMART KIGALI” and “One laptop per Child” projects.

“One Laptop Per Child” President Paul Kagame initiatives toward eliminating Poverty by providing more chances to child school enrollment across the country. So far, the project has seen about 200,000 laptops distributed to more than 400 schools.

Going further, Rwandan government signed a $140 million deal with South Korea’s largest Telecom – Korea Telecom (KT) Corp in June, 2013 to provide 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadband networks across the country especially in areas where internet connectivity is low. The deal is considered to be one of the biggest FDI deal ever embarked on by the East African nation.

On launching the “Smart Kigali” project, the Rwanda in partnership with the City of Kigali (the country’s capital), internet service providers, Rwanda Hotel and Restaurants Association as well as other government agencies announced last month that there will be free wireless internet in Kigali.

This was the first step in a strategy which aims to provide Wi-Fi coverage to all schools and public buildings and buses, hospitals, commercial buildings, taxi-parks and restaurants.

Rwanda hopes that the initiative – a public-private partnership – will significantly contribute towards delivering better services to people via the internet.

According to Alex Ntale, the Director of the Rwanda’s information and communications technology chamber, “Smart Kigali really is a test, it is giving people a taste of better things to come.”

yesterday

oops

It was a bright looking morning, all participant were timely in place with glowing faces and smile since assurance and desirous of reaping skills from Mr. Peik was up. Indeed, was easy to notice this situation from the participants after observing the power and internet connection were in place..

Unfortunately, the power went off immediately Mr. Peik started the session and of course he decided to use plan B by providing theoretical training's using white board and was fantastic. the hardship made the coordinator Mr. Andrew and DSJ colleagues trying to fix the problem with some logistics to get a generator, they made it and the power was back along with internet connections.

therefore applications of all theoretical search tips training  were exercised, it was a bit difficult but as long Mr. Peik assistance and supervision were there it was well understood, since we manage to have different search tips as:

·         Iringa population

·         Highest mountain in Tanzania

·         Barack Obama phone number

Monday 14 September,2015

Day one training recap with VIKES and MISA –TAN

The training from begin seems fantastic due to participants and facilitator readiness. Most of them came in time regardless traffic jam and other inconveniences along their journey to training venue.

Training started by 9:15AM unfortunately, we encountered some technical problem and power
rationing that at made some participants expectations to fade and mostly those who don’t have any knowledge on online journalism. In the due course of finding the solution of the problem from within the resources we have among participants, Mr. George Balthazar from TSJ and Deusideth DSJ at least managed to fix almost the entire problem we encountered.

Despite the difficulties the efforts made by trainees and the facilitator yield positive outcomes after lunch since all the participants manage to open their blogs and at least post their first stories. The posted stories were also linked to other sources by using their URL’s.