Creating and Facilitating an Enabling Environment for the Development of the Rwandan Information Society and Economy
40. The Government recognizes that one of its key role will be ensuring a favourable enabling political and socio-economic environment for
facilitating the process of establishing Rwanda’s information society and economy.
41. The GOR is therefore totally committed to providing and facilitating the necessary enabling political, economic, regulatory, legal and
institutional environment to support the process of moving Rwanda from a predominately agricultural economy to an information-rich knowledgebased society and economy.
42. The Government further acknowledges that: to facilitate the process of promoting the development and exploitation of ICTs in the economy
and society, the GOR will need to put in place special policy packages, incentive programmes and policy instruments.
43. The Government is therefore committed to taking the necessary policy and programmatic initiatives that will include implementing the
necessary policy programmes and instruments, tax and other incentive packages targeted at aiding, facilitating and supporting the development of
the Rwandan information society and economy. The Government is further committed to put in place the necessary instruments to strengthen its
participation in WTO negotiations.
Human Resource Development and Deployment is the Key
44. The GOR acknowledges that: the extent to which Rwanda will benefit from the advances and the opportunities of the emerging information
age will depend on how Rwanda is capable of developing and harnessing its human resources to initiate, support and maintain its socio-economic
development towards an information and knowledge economy.
45. The GOR further acknowledges that the young population of Rwanda can be transformed into an asset by adding value to human resources
and provide the environment for utilizing these resources for socio-economic development process ---- and that ICTs could play a major role in
this area.
46. The GOR is therefore fully committed to putting in place and facilitating the implementation of a comprehensive human resource
development programme to support the development of the Rwandan information society and economy. The GOR firmly believes that: human
resources is the ultimate resource – more so for a nation like Rwanda without key natural resources. The development of people to support the
process of moving Rwanda into an information society and economy is therefore top priority of the Government and the crucial role that ICTs can
play in this area is fully recognized and promoted by the government.
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