{"id":35941,"date":"2017-09-29T15:10:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tigo-rwanda-partners-with-ministry-of-ict-to\/"},"modified":"2017-09-29T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T18:27:14","slug":"tigo-rwanda-partners-with-ministry-of-ict-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tigo-rwanda-partners-with-ministry-of-ict-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigo Rwanda partners with Ministry of ICT to launch Smart Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Smart Village, located in Tumba Sector Rulindo District, Northern Province, has a population of 21,000 and an estimated 5,000 households.<\/p>\n<p>The Smart Village Initiative aims to bridge the digital divide in rural Rwanda by bringing technological solutions and innovations to residents in order to enhance their daily lives, increase socio-economic opportunities and create jobs by increasing their access to ICT and services. <\/p>\n<p>The pillars of the Smart Village are Digital Literacy, Financial Inclusion, Education, Connectivity\/Electricity, Healthcare, Agriculture, Governance and Smart Markets.<\/p>\n<p>Tigo Rwanda supports the Smart Village Initiative through the three pillars of Connectivity, Digital Literacy and Financial Inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to support the three pillars, Tigo Rwanda invested in providing 3G and 4G connectivity to the 21, 000 Tumba Sector residents. Today, they are able to enjoy the fastest and most affordable Internet in the country\u201dsaid Tigo Rwanda Deputy Chief Operating Executive, Chantal UmutoniKagame on the launch of the Tumba Smart Village<\/p>\n<p>Working with suppliers, Tigoprovide subsidized handsets to residents. The feature phones and smart phones Tigo provides are the most affordable in Rwanda at the cost of Rrw6,000 and Rrw36,000 respectively.<br \/>\n\u201cThis shall ensure that as many people in this community are able to access handsets\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside our partners, our VAS (Value Addded Services) trainers are teaching residents how to utilize the Internet, thereby opening the digital world to them. Using our various Mobile Financial Services, residents can now enjoy Tigo Cash services such as Push and Pull, which allow them to move money to and from their bank accounts using their handsets,Umutoni reiterated <\/p>\n<p>With Tigo\u2019s Digital Saving Groups platform, they created a platform that allows unbanked local savings groups (Ibimina) to digitize. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow youth and women\u2019s groups as well as cooperatives can enjoy the convenience of our MFS tools\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21906 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/index_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21907 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/index-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tigo Rwanda, in partnership with the Ministry of Information, Technology and Communications (MITC), launched the Tumba Smart Village Initiative today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35941"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35941"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}