Some 110 ‘digital ambassadors’ will tomorrow, October 6, complete a one-week boot camp during which they acquired digital skills ahead of their deployment to help impart basic ICT skills to their respective communities. The trainees were drawn from 110 cells across all the 30 districts of the country, officials said. The boot camp was organised by the Ministry of Information Communication Technology and Innovation (MINICT). The trainees aged between 18 and 35. Trainees acquire International Computer Driving License (ICDL). The boot camp, held in Kigali, is part of a broader effort to equip up to 5,000,000 Rwandans with digital skills by 2024. According to Lambert Ntangwabira, a senior technologist at MINICT, the digital literacy programme seeks to equip citizens with basic ICT skills to be able to use smartphones and other digital devices. “We want people to be able to access these services on their own,” Ntangwabira told Saturday Times. The boot camp is part of the Digital Ambassadors Program (DAP), an initiative rolled out by the Government in 2017. Ntangwabira said 41,000 Rwandans have so far trained in digital literacy as part of the programme. editor@newtimesrwanda.com
