GIS to be introduced in school curriculum

KIGALI - The Director General for Science, Technology and Research in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Marie-Christine Gasingirwa, has said that the ministry intends to introduce Geographical Information System (GIS) into the school curriculum. Gasingirwa was speaking at the closing ceremony of a two-week training on GIS for secondary teachers at Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). “We want to introduce GIS in the curriculum and there is no way teachers would teach it without being trained,” Gasingirwa said Friday. This was the third group of about 60 secondary teachers to take part in the training conducted by Environmental System Research Institute (ESRI) a Rwandan registered company which started in Germany jointly with Ministry of Education. Other teachers are expected to get similar training on GIS software in various secondary schools.GIS integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. It allows people to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts. Ends