Kobe Institute of Computing (KIC)

The twenty-eleven fiscal year: JICA trainee program for African countries “Problem Resolution for Development Issues by ICT” as the commissioned project of JICA, for 42 days from 5 February, 2012 to 17 March, 2012, KIC accepted 29 trainees, who were government officials from 8 African countries, and provided the course “Problem Resolution for Development Issues by ICT” in Medical Care, Agriculture, Industrial Development, Efficiency of Administrative Services and Education. This program was carried out as follows based on our original problem-solving method “Tankyu Practice”.

• Group work for hypothesis inspection of the solution by sharing the issues in each country
• Introduction to examples in Japan by observational tour of companies and lectures by the speakers invited from various companies and universities.
• Group work for further hypothesis inspection based on examples.

ICT Innovation between Rwanda and Japan

Jointly sponsored by JICA and JETRO, the panel discussion themed “the future prospect and the potential of Rwanda” was held in the official side event of TICAD V. The speakers gave the presentation on the present conditions, the actual examples and the potential of Rwanda, and also the exchange of opinions was performed actively. The adults and the students, regardless of inside and outside of the country, attended it and the questions and answers from various viewpoints were carried out positively.

Memorandum of Understanding between the Rwandan ICT Chamber and KIC for the development of ICT human resources and the promotion of industry ,13 June, 2014

The Rwandan ICT Chamber and KIC signed a memorandum on the partnership for the software development, the game software development, the production of animation and digital contents, the development of ICT human resources and the promotion of industry.