18/9/2005M. Bayingana1 AFRICAN NATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKS THE RWANDA CASE: Bayingana Moses RWANDA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AUTHORITY.

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18/9/2005M. Bayingana1 AFRICAN NATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKS THE RWANDA CASE: Bayingana Moses RWANDA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AUTHORITY

18/9/2005M. Bayingana2 OUTLINE Background Some of ICTs in Education Objectives Current Status Challenges & Constraints Activities Anticipated to Compliment RARN(REDNET) Expectations from the Workshop

18/9/2005M. Bayingana3 BACKGROUND The National Information Communication and Infrastructure Policy and Plan( ) envisaged the Rwanda Academic and Research Network – Linking all Institutions of Higher Education into a Wide Area Network with an International Gateway

18/9/2005M. Bayingana4 SOME OF ICTs in Education OBJECTIVES To promote R&D work in the Universities and Colleges. To facilitate promotion of academic and research collaboration and twining arrangements with International Centers of Excellence. To improve and upgrade the ICT resources and Infrastructure of Higher Educational Institutions

18/9/2005M. Bayingana5 CURRENT STATUS KIST & NUR have Campus Fibre Networks and both use Campus Vsats for their International Gateway. KIE is implementing Electronic Distance Education and Learning in the Country. They are yet to be linked into a Wide Area Network National Fibre Network is 100km from Kigali (KIST Location) and 50 km short to reach Butare (NUR Location)

18/9/2005M. Bayingana6 CHALLENGES & CONSTRAINTS Costly Infrastructure Technical Capacity Organization Issues Financial Resources

18/9/2005M. Bayingana7 Activities Anticipated to Compliment RARN(REDNET) Activities Anticipated to Compliment RARN(REDNET) National Fibre Network Operationalization of the EASSy Project in 2007 It’s anticipated that Universities will subscribe for bandwidth capacity from EASSy through RITA/RINEX ICT Capacity Building

18/9/2005M. Bayingana8 Expectations from the Workshop To Learn on benefits experienced by existing NRENs To Discuss on Challenges facing emerging or existing NRENs Proposition of Way Forward for NRENs in Africa

18/9/2005M. Bayingana9 THANK YOU