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A Mobile In Every Pocket

August 1, 2006 | justinoberman
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africa, mobile, rawanda

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."

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