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Youth Association for Dissemination of Development Information (YADDI)

Country

Rwanda

Programme Summary

Launched in January 2005, the Youth Association for Dissemination of Development Information (YADDI) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that aims to address information and communications technology (ICT) issues in Rwanda through the creation of community telecentres. Focusing especially on young people, YADDI facilitates access to development information through the internet and other ICT tools by providing computer and internet training and services. YADDI's mission and focus is to bridge the development information gap among youth and to network their efforts for sustainable development.

Communication Strategies

YADDI's strategy involves bringing information to the population - in particular, young Rwandans - through the use of ICTs. For instance, the organisation uses the internet to help secure youth welfare through a process of raising awareness of the negative impact of HIV/AIDS and other pandemics on their social and economic activities. ICT training and provision of services is also envisioned as a tool for developing a culture of entrepreneurship among Rwanda's youth.

Specifically, the organisation has established both a Centre for Dissemination of Development Information (CDDI) and a multipurpose telecentre that provides ICT services. The project’s multipurpose telecentres:

  • provide computer training for community members,
  • provide internet connections to enable people to surf the web and exchange emails and communicate via the internet
  • provide photocopiers, scanners, telephone lines and mobile phone sets, as well as fax, laminating, and binding machines, to assist the population and the students in producing their documents and receiving and making calls
  • provide typing services (business plans, reports, academic dissertations, and mémoires)
  • produce promotional materials (business cards, personal/family and administrative invitations, visit cards and brochures)
  • rent multipurpose telecentre equipment to other organisation and associations
  • offer internship opportunities to the secondary students registered in Elo-Informatic sections.

Development Issues

Youth, Technology.

Contact

Cléophas Kanamugire

Head Executive Committee (HED) and Co-Founder

Youth Association for Dissemination of Development Information (YADDI)

P.O. Box 303

Butare, Rwanda

Tel: (+250) 08745960 OR (+250) 08610264

kacleophas@yaddi.net

administration@yaddi.net

YADDI website

Source

Email from Cléophas Kanamugire to Soul Beat Africa on August 1 2005; and YADDI website on October 20 2006.


Placed on the Communication Initiative site August 02 2005
Last Updated March 11 2008



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