Rwanda Breaking Jinx In Africa

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Rwanda as a nation in Africa has continued to show a clear sign that they are tired of waiting for the West as it concerns development. Unlike other African Countries like Nigeria, Angola, Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya who are on the list of African Countries with highest Chinese loan debt, it has shown that long held belief by many African leaders that they can’t achieve any thing without the help of the Werstern countries. It has shown a clear sign of leadership with vision, sincerity and determination unlike her other African Countries who glory in perfidy.

 

Recently, Rwanda just like Egypt launched its first Satellite named Icyerekezo in the space to break the jinx over many African Countries. They have joined Egypt who are in their eight satellite launch. In all, it is certain that Rwanda has embraced Technology and are currently solidifying the gains they made already within this short period. This is shown by the Country, under the leadership of Paul Kagame, in a bid to prepare its young population for the future launching of a coding Academy in line with the Country’s National Strategy for Transformation. The School whose motto is “born to code” was launched to encourage young people who have interest in coding to pursue a career in coding. With this , Rwanda has become the first country in Africa to have a national program to encourage Artificial Intelligence and have set out to compete with other developed countries who are leading in the field of AI in nearest future.

Acording to report the Academy focuses in Cyber Security and Software Programming. As it stands now the school have enrolled an equal number of students from both gender with 30 boys and 30 girls in its first intake.

This feat was made possible through a partnership between the  Rwandan government and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) with the Ministry of ICT, Ministry of Education and Rwanda Polytechnic among other institutions.

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According to statement from the Ministry of Educion the model school will graduate its students in a period of 3 years attended by students who are “Born To Code” and are determined to pursue a life-time coding career at an early age so as to emerge as global software engineers in the future. The coding academy targets young Rwandans who just finished secondary school and performed well in Physics, Mathematics and English the report said.

The $4.6 billion structure that hosts the coding academy and the Nyabihu Technical and Vocational Education and Training School (VTET) was deliberately built away from the country’s capital, Kigali to provide a serene environment for students.

While speaking to the press, the Minister of ICT and Innovation; Paula Ingabire said “We are starting off with sixty (students) but the intention is if we can roll out at least five coding academies; one in each province, then you are looking at least every year enrolling about three hundred students that can specialize in becoming software experts”.

According to report, the coding academy was built in line with the National Strategy for Transformation which aims at building a knowledge based economy, through promoting science and technology.

 

Satellite launch

 

Rwanda recently launched a satellite to provide internet access to rural areas around Lake Kivu. The Minister of Education, Eugene Mutimura said, “We are excited about this programme because we believe that this coding school will promote excellence in our ICT sector and reduce government expenditure on reliance of foreign companies to provide us with tech solutions.”

 

Rwanda has embraced technology and is now preparing its young population for the future by launching a coding academy. The school’s motto “born to code” encourages young people interested in coding to pursue it as a career. The academy focusses on cyber security and software programming, and 30 girls and 30 boys enrolled in the first intake the report said.

The Rwandan government and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) recently launched the Rwanda Coding Academy in partnership with the Ministry of ICT, Ministry of Education and Rwanda Polytechnic among other institutions. The Rwanda Coding Academy, which opened on the 4th of February 2019 with a total of 60 students; 30 girls and 30 boys.

 

A statement from the Ministry of Education said, “This model school will graduate its students in a period of 3 years attended by students who are “Born To Code” determined to pursue a life-time coding career at an early age to emerge as global software engineers.” The coding academy targets young Rwandans who just finished secondary school and performed well in Physics, Mathematics and English.

 

The coding academy whose motto is: “born to code” targets students with an interest in coding  and seek to pursue coding as a long time career. The $4.6 billion structure that hosts the coding academy and the Nyabihu Technical and Vocational Education and Training School (VTET) was deliberately built away from the country’s capital, Kigali.

Speaking to the media, Minister of ICT and Innovation; Paula Ingabire said “We are starting off with sixty (students) but the intention is if we can roll out at least five coding academies; one in each province, then you are looking at least every year enrolling about three hundred students that can specialize in becoming software experts”.

 

The academy was built in line with the National Strategy for Transformation. Rwanda has embarked on building a knowledge based economy, through promoting science and technology.

 

– Nonso Ekwunife

Africa Daily News, New York

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