[UgaBYTES] NYAMATA TELESERVICE CENTRE: WINNER OF NATIONAL AWARD OF EXCELLENCE IN ICT

Sat Nov 1 08:44:40 GMT 2008

NYAMATA TELESERVICE CENTRE-NTC  has  received a “National awards of excellence in bridging the digital divide”. Paul BARERA who is the founder and Managing Director of NTC received the award yesterday 31 October 2008 with accolades in a gala ceremony that took place at SERENA hotel in Kigali presided over by Rwandan Prime Minister Bernard MAKUZA . Rwanda National Awards of Excellence was a high profile event where the focus was on "achievements of Rwandan firms in the area of information and communication technology."
This is the first ever ICT award to be held in Rwanda. The executive Director of RITA(Rwanda Information Technology Authority) said  that the awards which are to be celebrated on an annual basis are in line with Rwanda's National Information and Communication Infrastructure Plan II, (NICI). 
The first edition targeted specifically at the indigenous ICT Private sector. "This year, RITA was looking to use the ICT Awards to promote ICT private sector innovation, entrepreneurship, production of exportable ICT products, and penetration of ICTs among the under-served," said Nkubito Bakuramutsa, the outgoing Director General of RITA.Paul BARERA,

--- En date de : Ven 31.10.08, Dean Mulozi <deanmulozi at yahoo.com> a écrit :

De: Dean Mulozi <deanmulozi at yahoo.com>
Objet: [UgaBYTES] Fw: October 2008 Issue of " Information Technology in Developing countries"
À: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
Date: Vendredi 31 Octobre 2008, 12h22

Dear all, 
The follwing may be intersting to you. 

Regards 

Dean Mulozi,
Lusaka, Zambia.    

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> Warm Greetings! The October 2008 issue of ‘Information
> Technology in Developing Countries’ is now available at:
> http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/current.htm
> 
> The current issue of Information Technology in Developing
> Countries includes articles that discuss why genuinely
> successful, high-yield e-government projects are so
> difficult to find and even more difficult to measure, the
> state of e-government implementation in Malaysia, how Web
> 2.0 is changing the basic character of the Internet, a few
> e-government initiatives in India, a book review, and
> announcements of forthcoming conferences. The first article
> "Pursuing Truly Successful e-Government Projects:
> Mission Impossible?" by Stephen Ruth and Robert Schware
> provides examples of three e-government projects that have
> succeeded because they have addressed policy issues upfront
> and/or the two crucial questions that project stakeholders
> eventually ask: “What’s in it for me?” or “Why
> should I be involved in this e-government project?” The
> article discusses these issues in the light of three cases -
> Nangi Village Outreach (Nepal), Nemmadi (Karnataka, India),
> and MK Connects (Macedonia) - in which the beneficiaries are
> citizens who are assisted by the systems, and not by
> bureaucrats or faceless agencies.
> 
> The second article "E-government in Malaysia: Barriers
> and Progress" by Sharifah Alhabshi attempts to explore
> the nature of e-Government challenges and achievements from
> within Malaysia, and to review and understand disparate
> e-Government rankings given to Malaysia in three surveys
> undertaken by international institutions, the United
> Nations, Brown University and Waseda University. The
> research involved web surveys carried out on 71 agencies
> within Malaysia’s 281 ministries, and exploration of the
> objectives and the criteria used by each of the institutions
> in producing e-Government rankings through comparison of the
> three institutions’ rankings and review of the rankings
> from a human and economic development perspective. Amit
> Ranjan's article on "How Web 2.0 is Changing the
> Basic Character of the Internet" talks about the
> evolution of the Internet, which started as a means of
> sharing information for academic and military purposes, soon
> became the backbone of business communications, and is now
> getting social - people have taken center stage and
> technology has taken a backseat. The author points out that
> Web 1.0 focused more on technology while Web 2.0 is far more
> humane - it focuses on people and how they can collectively
> influence its developing character. The author illustrates
> how this next wave of the Internet is being put to new uses
> like development of social networking websites,
> content-centric communities etc.
> 
> Kiringai Kamau's article "Grassroots Involvement
> for Real ICT Impact" demonstrates the immense potential
> of locally developed data processing solutions for raw data
> collection and the eventual processing of the same for
> sustainable development. This article is followed by Kris
> Dev's case on the "Biometric Smart Card (BSC)"
> initiative. It describes the work done by the author and his
> team in the states of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh in the field
> of biometrics for unique identification and tracking of
> benefits extended to poor citizens under the Work for Food
> Programme and National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREGP)
> Scheme. Dr. Monisha Borthakur's article on the Common
> Services Centers (CSC) Scheme describes the implementation
> status of the CSC scheme in India. The CSC Scheme aims to
> improve the quality of delivery of services to citizens
> especially those living in rural areas. Over 14,000 CSCs
> across ten states have been rolled out till date. Attempts
> have also been made to bring together all stakeholders,
> including the service providers (SCAs), to enable drawing up
> of the CSC roadmap ahead keeping in mind the challenges
> faced by the first mover SCAs. The next article features the
> "Base of the Pyramid (BoP) Program" that has been
> initiated in Karnataka, India to promote idea generation,
> concept development, research, community development, rural
> linkages and student exchange programs.
> 
> Elena Maceviciute's book review on "Change
> Management in Information Services" gives an overview
> of the concepts, approaches and cases discussed in the book.
> Conference announcements include the annual eASiA conference
> to be held in November in Malaysia. This three-day
> international event will include active conferencing;
> networking and focus on five emerging application domains of
> ICT for Development - e-Government, ICT in Education, Asian
> Telecentre Forum, ICT enabled Health services and Mobile
> application and services for development. Other conferences
> included in the current issue are the International
> Conference on E-government and E-governance to be held in
> Turkey in 2009, the 3rd International Conference on
> Information and Communication Technologies and Development
> (ICTD2009) to be held in Qatar, and the 10th IFIP Conference
> whose theme is "Assessing the Contribution of ICT to
> Development Goals".
> 
> 
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