{"id":38339,"date":"2018-10-15T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rdb-koica-partnership-yields-multi-media-training\/"},"modified":"2018-10-15T15:20:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:20:23","slug":"rdb-koica-partnership-yields-multi-media-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rdb-koica-partnership-yields-multi-media-training\/","title":{"rendered":"RDB-KOICA partnership yields multi-media training school in Kicukiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US$2 million facility was sponsored by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and implemented by Rwanda Development Board (RDB).<\/p>\n<p>The school is in line with the Kigali Innovation City, a US$1.9 billion flagship that seeks to see Rwanda become a knowledge-based economy in line with the government 7-year development programme (2017-2024), according to the school is located in the premises of Integrated Regional Polytechnic Centre (IPRC) Kigali. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe school will focus on providing audio-visual production skills and creating mobile applications that meet international standards,\u201d explains Felix Siboniyo, Public Assets Division Manager at RDB. <\/p>\n<p>Siboniyo explains that the school will support entrepreneurs with projects that need to be developed through the use of ICT.<\/p>\n<p>The school will hence help people with film making projects, audio visual documentaries as it is equipped with modern audio visual studios, tools and experienced lecturers from South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, trainees will not pay tuition fees. Those with basic film making skills will apply, sit for an exam and successful candidates commence training in January 2019. <\/p>\n<p>The school will pioneer with about 200 trainees with cohorts that will be trained for between three months and one year, earning a certificate on completion. <\/p>\n<p>Felix Siboniyo says that the school will enable Rwanda to increase the number of jobs created in the cinema industry as \u201cit will train people in script writing and acting.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Siboniyo further added the trainees will also benefit from RDB\u2019s \u201cRwanda Film Office\u201d a project that will bring internationally celebrated movie stars and producers, to film their movies in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>The school is equipped with modern filming facilities estimated to have cost US$ 2 million. Three Rwandan trainers are undergoing training in South Korea.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27373 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/tools_to_be_used_in_studio_1_.jpg\" alt=\"RDB-KOICA partnership has yiedled multi-media training school in Kicukiro \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda has completed construction of a modern Multimedia and Mobile Application Technology school which will provide training in audio-visual technology, film making, acting and script writing. It is scheduled to open in January 2019.<\/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-38339","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\/38339","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=38339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38339"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38339"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}