Looking into Africa's Future: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Role of ICT Education Authors Romain Murenzi, Max Paoli, Sena Galazzi, Sean Treacy

ournal

Alliance for African Partnership Perspectives

Volume

1

Issue

1

Pages

107-114

Publisher

Michigan State University Press

Abstract:

CT in education has been considered a luxury in developing countries, where, particularly in least developed countries, emphasis was placed more on building schools and classrooms. In 2020, the view of ICT and its role changed radically. Firstly, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted ICT as a central tool. Secondly, the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and awareness of its enormous potential placed ICT in a new light. Together, these triggers of change can be embraced in order to integrate key learning modules and lessons to form appropriate skills into curricula in developing countries. Frontier fields in science and technology must be promoted and supported especially in the education sector in Africa and the developing world in general.

"Science, development and the rebuilding of Rwanda", 5 September 2014, Romain Murenzi

As Rwanda sought to rebuild after the horrors of the 1994 genocide, its development strategy emphasised science and technology. Romain Murenzi, who served as Rwanda’s science minister for eight years, describes the lessons this approach might offer to other developing countries.

In the Guardian blog global series for Global Science Advice Conference 2014.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2014/sep/05/science-development-and-the-rebuilding-of-rwanda

https://www.ingsa.org/conference-news/guardian-blog-series-for-global-science-advice-conference-2014/

"Africa in the global knowledge economy", 2005, Professor Romain Murenzi and Mike Hughes

New strategies for international co-operation in Africa will need to consider major trends such as globalisation and regional integration initiatives. Major reforms in political governance and democracy are taking root in most parts of Africa, but challenges – such as war and low levels of economic growth – remain. 

in "Going fro Growth: Science, Technology and Innovation in Africa". Edited by Calesteous Juma in 2005.


http://www.smith-institute.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/GoingforGrowthScienceTechnologyandInnovationinAfrica.pdf 

"Science is helping Rwanda give up the ghosts of the past", 30 October 2008, Romain Murenzi

Rwanda's recent success has depended, first, on sustained political and economic commitments from the highest levels of government, and, second, on a strategic vision that has allowed the nation to transform these commitments into policies and programmes that have had a positive impact on peoples' lives.

Nature volume 456, page27(2008)

 https://www.nature.com/articles/twas08.27a

"Broadband and the Development of Rwanda", January 2008, Romain Murenzi

Rwanda is staking its hopes for economic growth and the country’s future upon an ambitious 20-year project, now entering its second five-year phase, to make the country a regional ICT powerhouse. The plan calls for a nationwide fibre backbone to turn the country into a knowledge-based society. It intends to become a regional communications hub and a centre of excellence in ICT to support the growth of a robust financial sector, outsourced computer services, and regional air traffic control.

https://connect-world.com/broadband-and-the-development-of-rwanda/

"Learning Peace in Rwanda", Romain Murenzi, June 2002,

 In "Education for Peace for War and for Peace", Page 5, Publisher: UNESCO June 2002
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000129982?posInSet=17&queryId=b221826f-9e80-4176-a6f8-06d68a1d7959

"Education as a Human Right: The Rwandan Case from 1994-2004", July 2006, Romain Murenzi, John Rutayisire and Claver Yisa

This Paper explores the concept of education as a human right, and assesses the Rwandan experience from 1994 to 2004 within the context of international perspectives. It sets scene with reference to vision 2020 and Poverty Reduction Strategy Programme which are the main guiding frameworks that provide a road map for Rwanda's development in the next fifteen years.

In book: The right to Education and the Rights in Education (), Edition: 07-2006, Chapter: II-5, Publisher: Wolf Legal Publisher, Editors: Jan De Groof, Gracienne Lauwers and Kishore Singh, pp.91-100
https://www.amazon.it/Right-Education-Rights/dp/9058502384

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264235468_Education_as_a_Human_Right_The_Rwandan_Case_from_1994-2004