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Industrial Sector Development Goal
29. To develop a viable ICT production and development industry, a vibrant cottage industry and a mass-consumer products light industry
capable of generating economic growth and employment and producing goods for the domestic market and for export into the sub-regions and
beyond.
Degree of Emphasis on the Development of the Various Sectors
30. As part of the GOR overall socio-economic strategic within the context of the moving Rwanda from a predominantly agricultural economy
status to predominantly an information and knowledge economy status within 20 years, the government, will lay very high emphasis on the
development of the service sector, medium-to-high emphasis on the development of the industrial sector and medium emphasis on agriculture
sector.
The ICT-2020 Policy
31. The ICT-2020 Policy, sets out the orientation of the Government’s ICT Policy and Strategies within context of the GOR’s broad socioeconomic development objectives within the Vision 2020 time frame of 20 years.
32. The Government in formulating its ICT-2020 Policy is guided by the principle that if Rwanda is to take full advantage of the opportunities of
the information age and develop a vibrant multi-sectorial information and knowledge economy, it should not as a nation be just a consumer of ICT
goods and services but also a producer and developer of the technology.
33. The GOR believes that development of a local ICT production industry and service sector is as equally important as the deployment,
exploitation and utilization of the technology to support the activities of various sectors of the economy and society.
34. The GOR as part of its ICT policy and strategy is therefore fully committed to simultaneously pursuing both ICT Exploitation and Production
policy involving: the utilization and exploitation of ICTs to support the delivery of government services and the activities of various sectors of the
economy as well as the production, development and delivery of ICT products and services ---- i.e. towards the development and promotion of an
ICT industry and service sector.
35. The GOR will implement this ICT Policy over a period of twenty years up to the Year 2020 through the implementation of four 5 Year NICI
Plans with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd NICI Plans laying emphasis on the exploitation and utilization of ICT products and services to support the delivery
of government services and the activities of various sectors of the economy and the 4th NICI Plan laying emphasis on the production,
development and delivery of ICT products and services.
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