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Title: From Voter Registration to Health Monitoring - Handheld Computers for Development - dot-ORG
Issue: October 2005, Issue 13
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: In developing country contexts, handheld computer applications are starting to show their benefits across development sectors. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and other types of handheld computers offer considerable advantages over desktops or even laptops. Read more to learn about specific projects dot-ORG has been involved in...
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Title: Local Entrepreneurial Skills & Sustainability in Rwandas Community Internet Centers
Issue: January 2005, Issue 9
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: This article describes entrepreneurship training that was provided to the managers of Community Internet Centers (CICs) in Rwanda. The purpose of the training was to ensure that the CIC managers had the skills to run the CICs as profit-making enterprises.
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Title: Testing Hand-held Computers for Voter Registration in Rwanda
Issue: Fall 2004, Issue 8
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: dot-ORG has been working with the Rwandan National Electoral Commission (NEC) to strengthen the capacity of the NEC via information and communication technologies (ICTs). This support has included working with the NEC to create and maintain a national voter database, print fraud- resistant voter registration cards, network regional Commission offices, and pilot hand-held computers to collect and validate voter registration information. This article focuses on the field testing of the hand-held computers for voter registration.
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Title: Enhancing Democratization in Rwanda through New Voter Registration Cards
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: USAID/Rwanda has contributed significantly to the democratization process in Rwanda through a two-year dot-ORG project to strengthen the capacity of the Rwandan National Electoral Commission (NEC) via information and communications technologies (ICTs). Implemented by the Academy for Educational Development (AED), dot-ORG is working with the NEC to create and maintain a national voter database, print fraud-resistant voter registration cards, network regional Commission offices, and pilot hand-held computers to collect and validate voter registration information.
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Title: Community Internet Centers Give Rwanda Access to Information
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: Two community Internet centers (CIC) in Rwanda are providing their local communities vital access to information for both professional and personal uses. These telecenters in Nyanza and Gitarma were opened in partnership with USAID/Rwanda, dot-ORG and local entrepreneurs. They are privately operated, using a sustainable for-profit model to ensure they remain active after the startup project funding ends.
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Title: An Innovative Approach to ICT and Telecom Regulation and Policy in Africa
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Academics, regulators, policymakers and operators from 17 nations met during the last week of May and the first week of June, 2003 in Gaborone, Botswana, to mark the inauguration of NetTel Safari, a two week conference hosted by the NetTel@Africa (Network for Capacity Building and Knowledge Exchange in the Telecommunications Sector) Project.
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Title: ICTs Supporting Democracy in Rwanda through Capacity Building at the National Electoral Commission
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: The USAID-funded dot-ORG project in Rwanda is actively engaged in improving the speed, accuracy and transparency of the country's election management system. This work forms a vital part of strengthening Rwanda's electoral process and overall democratization and good governance efforts.
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Title: Building the Multi-sector Regulatory Agency (ARM) in Rwanda
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: dot-GOV is in the final phase of the Telecommunications and Information Technology sector - Legal and Regulatory Reform project, funded by USAID/Rwanda. Under this project, dot-GOV and the Government of Rwanda (GOR) have worked together to establish the Rwandan Multi-sector Regulatory Agency (ARM), with jurisdiction over several market sectors including telecommunications and energy.
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Title: Using Radio and IT to Build Community in Africa
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: On January 17, 2003, dot-EDU hosted a group of visiting radio journalists from Africa for a day-long workshop on "Building a Sense of Community in African Countries through Radio and Information Technology (IT)."
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Title: Legal and Regulatory Reform in Rwanda's Telecommunications and Information Technology Sector
Issue: Winter 2002, Issue 2
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Great progress has been made since the last consultancy ended in July 2002, which outlined the organization and job descriptions of the new regulatory agency. The Rwandan Government (GOR) has named a Managing Director, Mr. François Mutembere, who was formerly the Governor of the Rwandan National Bank. Seven individuals (including two women) have also been named to the Board of Directors. This action by the GOR means the administrative and operational development of the regulator can continue.
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Title: All Three "dots" Work in Rwanda
Issue: Fall 2002, Issue 1
DOT: DOT-COM
Summary: All three DOT-COM Alliance members are working in Rwanda to help strengthen the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in government, education, and broad development through three different projects.
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Issue 19: March 2007
