The University of Rwanda has launched an online post-graduate programme, Masters of Communication Management (eMCM).
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The eMCM programme was launched on Tuesday by the University of Rwanda in partnership with International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the UK Telecommunication Academy (UTKA).
Speaking to reporters at the launch, Dr Hamadoun Touré, executive director of Smart Africa, said the programme is an additional tool in the basket of capabilities of training that "we will be giving to our young people for Africa to become a knowledge-based economy."
"We are here talking about eMCM; ICT is being used as a tool for education to make it better, reaching out to many more people at more affordable rates," Toure said.
The former ITU secretary-general said the foundation of Africa's development is going to be based on information and communication technology (ICT).
"And, therefore, we want to put emphasis on training them. That is why scholarship programme at Smart Africa is one of the most important thing and it's cross-cutting for all the countries and we are going to train tens of thousands of young people in Africa," Touré said.
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