Rwanda’s e-governance promotion has gone down at the grassroots level where leaders of all the 2,148 cells across the country shall receive laptop computers under the patron ministry of local government.
The promotion is effective during the 2011/12 fiscal year.
The computers are aimed at assisting in the management of data among beneficiaries of social protection programs including Vision Umurenge Programme (VUP), Fund for the Support of Genocide Survivors (FARG), and One Cow per Family, Ubudehe and Mutuelle de Santé.
Local Government minister, James Musoni, says the computers will help cells address challenges faced in delivering services to the population that include; speeding up of data collection and management.
Musoni presented the first 25 laptops to cell leaders of Rubavu district emphasising the need for the promotion of ICT in local governance as envisioned in the country’s vision 2020 and NICI III.
The minister confirmed that all the cells in the country would be issued with computers this fiscal year under implementation of local government capacity building strategy approved by the Cabinet in January 2011.
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