{Rwanda hosts the 2015 Commonwealth e-Governance Forum Africa, which takes place from 24-25 March.}
The forum is organised by Rwanda’s Ministry of Youth and ICT (MYICT) and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO).
The CTO is an international body, which is engaged in multilateral collaboration of ICT and uses its experience and expertise to support its members in integrating ICT to deliver interventions that enrich people within the Commonwealth and beyond.
According to the ministry the forum explores topics geared towards promoting ICT as a tool for effective service delivery.
And more than 200 policy makers, regulators, academia, implementing agencies, as well as application providers attend the two-day event.
Rwanda’s minister of youth and ICT Jean-Philbert Nsengimana explained that the e-governance forum comes at a time when Rwanda is entering the last five years of its economic blueprint- Vision 2020.
Rwanda’s Vision 2020 is a development plan that seeks to transform the East African nation from a low-income agriculture-based economy to a knowledge-based, service-oriented economy with a middle-income country status.
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