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

[NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul]

Congratulations to Nyamata Tele Service centres.

It's really a good think you got that prize !
This is a goog encouragement to go on prividing services to your community !

Sincerely

> 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.
>
>
>> From: IFIP Newsletter <ifipnewsletter at iimahd.ernet.in>
>> Subject: October 2008 Issue of " Information Technology in Developing
> countries"
>> To: chris_fwa at yahoo.com, cmaitland at ist.psu.edu,
> cr_4_agriculture at yahoo.com, crdas at yahoo.com, cscarone at hotmail.com,
> Csekaran at worldbank.org, dadalo at tiscali.it, darbarik at yahoo.com,
> Dbhatia at worldbank.org, dc_misra at hotmail.com, deanmulozi at yahoo.com,
> delaboni at yahoo.com, dev_kamal at hotmail.com, dharamgaon at yahoo.co.in
>> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 11:27 PM
>> Dear Subscriber,
>>
>> 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".
>>
>>
>> We hope you will find this issue interesting and we look
>> forward to receiving your feedback on the same. We welcome
>> your contributions for the forthcoming issue of the IFIP WG
>> 9.4 Newsletter. Interested contributors are requested to
>> refer to the guidelines for authors available at:
>> http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/guidelines.htm or may
>> mail us at: ifipnewsletter at iimahd.ernet.in
>>
>> The October 2008 Issue can be directly accessed at:
>> http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/oct2008/oct2008.htm. A
>> downloadable PDF version of this Issue is also available on
>> our website (URL:
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>> ease access and facilitate printing.
>>
>> With Best Regards,
>> Editorial Team, IFIP WG 9.4 Newsletter.
>>
>> Editorial office:
>> Centre for Electronic Governance,
>> Indian Institute of Management,
>> Ahmedabad - 380 015, India
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