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Rwanda to invest Rwf700 billion in ICT projects

Young ICT experts develop software at K-Lab. Rwanda plans to fund innovative ICT projects to the tune of Rwf700 billion as the country looks to becoming the region’s technology hub. PHOTO | CYRIL NDEGEYA |

Rwanda plans to fund innovative ICT projects to the tune of Rwf700 billion as the country looks to becoming the region’s technology hub.

The fund will officially be launched this year during the World Economic Forum to take place in Kigali in May. This could be the biggest fund established to promote ICT entrepreneurship in the country’s history.

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