Day Three

The training was fantastic. It was more practical. My expectations towards searching information to feed  blog were met.

In summary, day three covered journalistic research through the internet, plagiarism and copyrights and working more with blogs . The training in general has been very helpful to me as the lecturer in journalism courses. In the last day of the training,I did research on Smart Kigali among many research I did  in various search engine. Because of this research, in the future I plan learning more in searching and teach my students on these experiences

 I am expecting to teach my students on how to create blogs, how to search information from the internet, how to use links in blogs and photos. Finally, I expect my students to benefit more on BLOGS creation.

Finally, I didn't like the time allocated to this training. The training should be extended to at least 10 days in the future

Thanks to the trainer. He is very competent in this field. Welcome again

Smart Kigali to boost ICT for better service delivery

The government of Rwanda has launched 'Smart Kigali' project to enable people access to free internet via Wi- Fi enabled service shttp://www.kigalicity.gov.rw/spip.php?article1179

The Minister of Youth and ICT Nsengimana j. Philbert (in the middle) testing his device for wi-fi connection at KCT File photo : Kigali City Official  website

The Rwanda’s Minister in charge of Information Technology, Jean Philibert Nsengimana, said he wanted to see the plan “accelerate growth of the Internet sector” and attract more investors.

On launching the “Smart Kigali” project, the Rwanda in partnership with the City of Kigali (the country’s capital), internet service providers, Rwanda Hotel and Restaurants Association as well as other government agencies announced  that there will be free wireless internet in Kigali.

The project, which is line with Rwanda’s Vision 2020, symbolises another step towards achieving the East African nation’s prospects of becoming a regional IT hub, as it steadily moves past the tragic events of the 1994 genocide into a future built on a Knowledge-based economy in order to attract more foreign investment.

Five years ago, Rwanda launched the “One Laptop Per Child” initiative in schools across the country. So far, the project has seen about 200,000 laptops distributed to more than 400 schools.

Going further, Rwandan government signed a $140 million deal with South Korea’s largest Telecom – Korea Telecom (KT) Corp in June, 2013 to provide 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadband networks across the country especially in areas where internet connectivity is low. The deal is considered to be one of the biggest FDI deal ever embarked on by the East African nation.

This was the first step in a strategy which aims to provide wi-fi coverage to all schools and public buildings and buses, hospitals, commercial buildings, taxi-parks and restaurants.

Rwanda hopes that the initiative – a public-private partnership – will significantly contribute towards delivering better services to people via the internet.

   According to the United Nations Broadband Commission for Digital Development 2013, only 8 percent of Rwandans are have access to the internet.

  Rwanda ranks as one of the least corrupt countries in Africa, while on the World Bank’s ease of Doing Business Index for 2013, it ranks as the 3rd easiest place to do business in sub-Saharan Africa and the 52nd out of 185 countries examined globally.

Day Two

Summary of the training

•  Meaning of the internet
• Journalism research via internet /search tips
• internet in every day journalism- African and international web resources
• journalistic research through the internet/ search assignments- working with blogs
• We also discussed briefly the Murdoch's speech on digital media which raised the fruitful discussion        
• During the training, I liked mostly the topic of journalistic research through the internet.  I disliked the way we discussed the Murdoch's speech on digital era. We didn't intensively discussed it even though seemed to be like the basement of our training. I am convinced that we shall discuss it later deeply.  
• The training has been useful to me because I came across with the search engines that I never known before. These are like  the African and international web resources.

Day one

During my training on internet training for journalism lecturers I have enjoyed the Mudoch's speech to the American Society of Newspaper  Editors, Washington DC, April 13, 2005 . I will write the speech's content later. He says, " .... I' m a digital immigrant. I wasn't weaned on the web,nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know...

Beyond that speech yesterday we started by looking on the internet users statistics in the world and Tanzania

Day one...

My name is Darius Mukiza. I expect to gain much from the training for journalism lecturers especially the advantages and challenges facing young university students in using internet to search for information related to their studies. I expect also to hear the discussion on the challenges facing university lecturers in using internet as the academic wallet materials.