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Rwanda is making huge strides toward creating an environment conducive to the provision of high quality education. Vision 2020, the Education Sector Policy, and numerous development documents highlight the promotion of science and technology in education with special attention to ICT as a core element for building the knowledge economy.

GLP is assisting Rwanda to achieve its education goals through the development of the Rwanda Education Commons (REC), a pilot program for the Africa Education Commons that seeks to identify teacher educational needs (primarily but not exclusively around the use of ICT) and to bring together the appropriate organizational stakeholders to solve those needs in a coordinated fashion. REC’s on-the-ground organization supported by GLP has already started building meaningful networks among stakeholder organizations, with strategic attention given to facilitating public-private partnerships.

GLP's Managing Director, Dr. Rob Schware, recently published an article on this topic. Read Rwanda and the Knowledge Economy: Business Unusual (pdf) and check out the article as published by Rwanda’s The New Times.