In a bid to attract a high caliber workforce, Rwanda has removed work permit requirements and employment restrictions for foreigners wanting to work there.

The country hopes to gain entrepreneurs who can provide value addition to agricultural products, develop tourism into dynamic clusters that generate wealth, and utilize ICT to create export-oriented service industries.

The country is moving from agricultural subsistence towards using ICT to build a knowledge based economy. To achieve this, the government has pledged to have high speed broadband internet connectivity carried by fibre-optic cables in all schools in the next two years.

Rwanda which has two fibre -optic rings around Kigali, and a cable being laid across the country envisions being the information-technology hub for the resource rich nations of Eastern and Central Africa. Spending $65 million on broadband is part of it’s 20-year technology strategy to become a high tech service economy.