{"id":38053,"date":"2018-08-22T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/carnegie-mellon-university-hones-ict-innovation\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:51:40","slug":"carnegie-mellon-university-hones-ict-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/carnegie-mellon-university-hones-ict-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie Mellon University hones ICT innovation potentials in Rwanda and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Varsity\u2019s presence in Rwanda offers a platform where people can engage in Africa\u2019s most significant opportunities and challenges through education and contextually-relevant research.<\/p>\n

CMU-Africa is currently hosted at Telecom House but is set to relocate soon to a Rwf9 billion newly constructed campus located in the government newly designed Innovation City, in Kigali Special Economic Zone (KSEZ). <\/p>\n

The University launched its operations in 2012, with the aim of training more than 400 students within five years, but has so far graduated 145. <\/p>\n

The Chief Operating Officer at Rwanda Development Board, Emmanuel Hategeka, in October 2017, told Parliament that there had been slight complications in joining the campus with the University of Rwanda.<\/p>\n

According to the Auditor General’s 2016\/17 report, Rwanda invested $43 Million, approximately Rwf36 Billion.<\/p>\n

As for the 2016\/17 Nation Budget, the Government attributed Rwf7 Million for the construction of Carnegie Mellon’s new campus located in the Kigali Special Economic Zone (KSEZ), in a bid to enhance better education for students.<\/p>\n

Speaking with IGIHE, Rwanda’s Minister for Information Technology and Communications, Jean de Dieu Rurangirwa lauded the university’s campus presence in Rwanda, and said it presented opportunities for Africans. <\/p>\n

Rwanda is currently the only African country hosting the branch of Carnegie Mellon University. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe University enrolls students from over 20 countries across the African continent. The knowledge there is of great advantage as the campus offers an American-worthy Education,\u201d Rurangirwa observed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the campus in Rwanda, the country benefits a lot because it develops a great relationship with the students hosted and you will find that most of these students decide to stay in Rwanda when they complete their studies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cOther benefits involve being united as Africa; we gain new brains that are in search of a place where they can develop their potential,\u201d Rurangirwa said.<\/p>\n

In May 2017, the university signed agreements with Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) aiming to cooperate in the making of devices for e-tax payment, and finding other kinds of online methods of tax payment. <\/p>\n

The new CMU-Africa campus is being constructed in a place designated by the government as the Kigali Innovation City, a future hub aimed at leveling up the country\u2019s digital transformation. <\/p>\n

Africans studying in Rwanda\u2019s CMU-Africa campus pay a fee of $16,000, an estimation of Rwf13 Million per year. As for East-African students, they receive a discount of 50% from the fee.<\/p>\n

Born out of a partnership between CMU and the Government of Rwanda, CMU-Africa is addressing the critical shortage of high quality engineering talent required to accelerate development in Africa\u2014home to the fastest growing workforce in the world.<\/p>\n

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