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A Mobile In Every Pocket

What Silicon Valley is to the United States and what Bangalore is to India... Rwanda is on its way to becoming for Africa according to a recent article in the Guardian.

The Kigali Institute for Science and Technology (Kist), established in 1997 at a former army barracks, has already graduated close to 2,000 students.

In terms of mobile technology, the mobile medium, as in most African nations, has a huge role to play:

"More "mobile in every pocket" than "chicken in every pot", the Vision 2020 project aims to rapidly transform a depressed agricultural economy into one driven by information communications and technology (ICT). If it works, the percentage of Rwanda's workforce involved in farming will drop from 90% to 50% in 15 years. By then the country should be the regional ICT hub - a kind of Singapore of the Great Lakes."

"Today half of the 2,300 primary schools have at least one computer. There are 30 internet cafes in the leading cities and there will be 30 more in even the most remote rural areas by 2007. Telecoms companies hawk broadband internet for home use. More than 300,000 people have mobiles. If a plan to assemble phones locally, and sell them for the equivalent of £19 with six months to pay, comes to fruition the growth will be even faster."

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