3.0 Plan-Specific Actions and Time-Bound Measurable (TBM) Targets
Plan-Specific Actions
Plan-Action
Prerequisites and
Linkages
Time-Bound Measurable Targets
Plan-Action
Implementation Agency
The Rapid National Broadband Backbone
Development Facilitation Initiative
I3.1
Note: This initiative is to promote the rapid
development of an advanced broadband communication
backbone infrastructure for Rwanda through private
investment.
The Initiative is designed to be the most competitive in
the region for attracting world-class communication
backbone technology into the country. It will serve as
one of the initiatives designed to promote hassle-free
communication backbone development to accelerate the
process of building and expanding the communication
backbone of Rwanda.
Prerequisites:
Non
Plan-Action Linkages:
RIPA in collaboration with the
Ministry
of
Public
Works,
Transport and Communications to
by 2001 develop an attractive and
competitive investment promotion
package and incentives to facilitate
the implementation of the Rapid
National Broadband Backbone
Development
Facilitation
Initiative.
Non
RIPA to aggressively promote the
Rapid
National
Broadband
Backbone
Development
Facilitation Initiative domestically
and international
The Initiative will make it possible for any company or
organization wishing to invest in the building of a
section of the national communication backbone using
advanced broadband technologies to be free to do so
without the need for securing license or going through
lengthy process of authorization. The Initiative will
ensure that any company local or foreign with the
capacity to implement a section of the national backbone
will be free to undertake this activity. The only
restriction or requirement will be that advance (cuttingedge) technologies should be deployed and that a
minimum capital investment requirement to be
stipulated by Government from time to time is met.
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Ministry of Public
Works, Transport and
Communications
The Rwandan Investment
Promotion Authority
(RIPA)