3.0 Plan-Specific Actions and Time-Bound Measurable (TBM) Targets
Plan-Specific Actions
Plan-Action
Prerequisites and
Linkages
Implement a Programme to set-up a Software
Certification Agency (SCA) to monitor and
enforce quality assurance in the software
industry.
Prerequisites
P7.1
Note: The SCA will be mandated to serve as the
Certification Body for software services and
products targeted at the export market. The
Agency will be initially set-up as a unit within
RITA or within the National Standards
Organization; this can later on be transformed
into a fully-fledged independent agency as the
Rwandan software products and services industry
develops and expands.
Non
Time-Bound Measurable Targets
Plan-Action
Implementation Agency
Ministry of Commerce, Industry and
Tourism in collaboration with the Private
Sector Federation and the National
Standards Board to set-up the Software
Certification Agency by 2002
Ministry of Commerce
Industry and Tourism
Plan-Action Linkages
Non
The National Standards
Organization
Initiate a process for developing and
popularizing on the international market a
Rwandan Brand for Quality Software
Products and Services by 2005
The Private Sector
Federation
The Federation of Rwandan Private Sector is to
be a key stakeholder in the setting-up and of this
Agency.
Ministry of Education to implement an initiative
aimed at encouraging the Universities and
Colleges to develop and offer special degree
programmes targeted at producing Software
Development oriented Applied Mathematics
Graduates
Prerequisites
Non
P7.2
Note: Universities and Colleges under this
initiative will have the option to either set up a
Special Department to offer these courses or use
relevant existing Department to develop and
offer these programmes. Graduates of these
programmes will be expected to have those
relevant mathematical and logical skills
Plan-Action Linkages
Non
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Initiative to train Software Development
oriented Applied Mathematics Graduates
at the country’s Universities and Colleges
to begin by 2003
Ministry of Education
Universities and Colleges