{"id":37883,"date":"2018-07-19T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ngirente-rallies-comesa-members-on-digital\/"},"modified":"2018-07-22T10:28:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T10:28:15","slug":"ngirente-rallies-comesa-members-on-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ngirente-rallies-comesa-members-on-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngirente rallies COMESA members on digital economic integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ngirente was speaking yesterday in Lusaka, Zambia at the opening of the 20th COMESA Heads of State and Government Summit. <\/p>\n<p>The summit was organized under the theme \u2018Towards Digital Economic Integration\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Government of Rwanda values the role of COMESA in expanding market integration for its members, and remains committed to organisation\u2019s vision. <\/p>\n<p>Ngirente said that the summit\u2019s discussions and recommendations will contribute to achieving the organisation\u2019s mission of providing technical services and to facilitate the region\u2019s sustained development through economic integration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo make COMESA\u2019s digital economic integration achievable and meaningful to our people, additional efforts, resources and closer collaboration are needed. Rwanda stands ready to play our part, working together with member states, to make this dream of COMESA digital economy a reality,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>He said that through Rwanda\u2019s National Strategy for Transformation 2017\/2024, Digital Economic Integration is one of the top priorities. <\/p>\n<p>According to Ngirente, Rwanda is working to apply digital solutions to improving service delivery in both public and private sectors. <\/p>\n<p>The Head of Government insisted that integrating digital technologies will add value to ongoing efforts of COMESA member states to grow and diversify their economies, enhance business climate and attract more trade and investment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26261 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/diyfwusx4aas_j2-2-86410.jpg\" alt=\"Ngirente speaks at the opening of the 20th COMESA Heads of State and Government Summit in Lusaka, Zambia.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister, Dr. Edouard Ngirente has said that Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)\u2019s digital economic integration would be achieved and become meaningful once efforts, resources and collaboration are improved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/37883","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37883"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37883"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}