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Youth Association for Dissemination of Development Information (YADDI)CountryRwanda RegionAfrica Programme SummaryLaunched 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 StrategiesYADDI'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:
Development IssuesYouth, Technology. ContactCléophas 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 SourceEmail from Cléophas Kanamugire to Soul Beat Africa on August 1 2005; and YADDI website on October 20 2006. Placed on the Soul Beat Africa site August 02 2005 Last Updated March 11 2008 |
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By any civic, moral and legal yardsticks,the expansion of transnational/global knowledge and research should not be blocked/checked or spied by the administrative means. The new western technologies are being used to make an unwarranted ghetto between the developing and the developed world- a measure that is against all the fundamental norms/rights for which the Western/ governments/ civil societies do claim to be the defenders or champions.