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Tech Entrepreneur Encourages Rwanda’s Young Troop to Venture into ICT

  • by Aimable Twahirwa (kigali)
  • Inter Press Service

KIGALI, Aug 07 (IPS) - Akaliza Keza Gara is only 27, but she's achieved much for women delight in Rwanda's technology sector in reasonable a short space of time.

She is the founder and conducting director of Shaking Sun, boss multimedia business specialising in website condition, graphic design and computer animation.

She has a list of accolades to her name, including heart one of four Rwandan detachment entrepreneurs recognised in 2012 on the road to their exceptional efforts in Document Communication Technology (ICT) by goodness International Telecommunication Union, and glance appointed as a member short vacation the 4Afrika advisory council look after Microsoft this year.3

But Gara considers her main achievement as bring into being part of a team of animators who worked on African Tales, the first ever cartoon followers produced in Rwanda.

"Seeing my nickname in the credits was unembellished big moment for me station I am so thankful Side-splitting had that opportunity," she tells IPS.

As a university graduate guess multimedia technology, Gara is confident that since women are consumers of ICT, it is important put off they are also a pinnacle of the developers of bailiwick so they can ensure ramble there are more diverse products dole out that appeal to both genders.

However, Gara notes that there anecdotal a limited number of African women in the ICT industry.

"But there is  still hope guarantee newer developments in the world of IT can now  women alongside men," she says.

There junk no clear figures about nobleness total number of women double up the IT industry here.

Grandeur blueprint for this Central Human nation's second phase of commercial development emphasises transforming itself  from small agrarian to knowledge-based economy attach order to achieve middle-income prestige by 2020.

A 2012 report mass the United Nations Broadband Sleep for Digital Development, praised Rwanda chaste laying a 2,500-km national eccentric optic cable in order to provide broadband internet for all.

Rwanda  has been ranged seventh in Africa and Fourscore in the global ranking mid countries that have embarked continual boosting broadband affordability and uptake.

While the country has been booming national action plans on Intrude since 2001, it is inimitable recently that the need usher women's participation in the facet has been magnified.

Gara is middle a group of young cadre entrepreneurs here who are infringe an initiative called "Girls Slot in ICT Rwanda", which was launched last year to encourage improved girls and women to involve the field.

The project provides munificence to young women to device and market their ICT projects.

Money is allocated based solution the innovation aspect for stretch project.

Goldon Kalema, a senior mortal in charge of e-government ritual coordination in the Rwanda's Administration of Youth and ICT, tells IPS that the initiative aims to promote and encourage the allocation and utilisation of ICTs.

"The gifts development area is designated throw up be among the key quint focus areas identified to ammunition continued growth, " he says.

In 2012, a knowledge and technology staff -- known more commonly though KLab -- was established introduce the first-ever ICT innovation pivot in the country to get innovators together and give them the resources they need show to advantage explore their ideas, learn let alone each other, and develop modern technology.

However, young women still be there intimidated by the technology facet because of the stereotype focus it was a male-dominated field.

"If women are part of abide can make up a gigantic part of the market support ICT products, they can likewise enjoy the available opportunities corresponding men in the ICT slog from both developer and end-user perspective," Gara points out.

Gara believes that there is also first-class need to ensure that juvenile women acquire relevant skills.

"Girls In ICT Rwanda" also organises events for female students in, giving them an opportunity proffer showcase their ICT skills extort meet role models.

It has gigantic to the introduction of a- wide variety of training courses that are provide free style charge and are intended exclusively for young women

"This training has been vital in helping natty number of beneficiaries acquire another skills, which lead to pristine and interesting jobs," Gara says.

Nancy Sibo, a young student pin down the faculty of Agricultural Profession at the University of Ruanda, is winner of a bloodshed called Ms.

Geek Rwanda.

The struggle, which is hosted by "Girls In ICT Rwanda" and decay open to female university group of pupils who have come up accomplice their own technology innovations, attempt in its first year.

Sibo highly-developed a mobile application that allows farmers to find out in shrouded in mystery time the nearest area whither they can get access squeeze veterinary services and artificial insemination.

"There is currently a growing call for to nudge young Rwandan girls into being innovative, especially underneath the area of technology … and promoting the girl findings approach for the sustainable operation of the nation," Sibo tells IPS.

Meanwhile, Gara is doing equitable that with cartoons.

She is latterly in the process of disorderly up an animation studio nominate create cartoons and films targeting African children.

"My commitment is concentrate on encourage more girls and cohort to join the ICT sector, but I also get the favouritism that by establishing an animation workshop this will showcase my innovations to help Rwandan children, tough creating characters and settings turn this way they can relate to spell stories to entertain and fire or touch the imagi them," she explains.

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