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Transportation 

In 2006, the number of passengers boarding the buses of the National Public Transport Authority (ONATRACOM), grew by 23% from 2005. The number of buses more than doubled during the last quarter of the year 2006, growing from 62 to 126 buses. The same is true on the number of passengers in the urban network from 467,346 in 2005 to 1,200,750 in 2006. However the number of buses remained insufficient if compared to the needs of the constantly growing urban population; ONATRACOM having allocated only twenty two buses permanently to the urban transport (City of Kigali). 

Development in ICT Sector

As early as 1998 the Government of Rwanda initiated its ICT blueprint dubbed -"An Integrated Framework for Socio-Economic and ICT Policy and Plan Development and Implementation for Rwanda". After a series of consultative encounters with stakeholders and the general public this document was fine-tuned and adopted in 2000. ICT was identified as a tool “to transform a subsistence economy into an information-rich, knowledge-based one, and accelerate economic growth.