Ricci Shryock
01/05/12
Carnegie Mellon University says it is excited to explore information technologies with Rwandan students at first African campus.
This fall, students in Rwanda will begin classes at Carnegie Mellon University’s Kigali campus when the U.S. research university opens its new graduate program in the East African country.
Bruce Krogh, Director of Carnegie Mellon in Rwanda, said the Master of Science in Information Technology graduate program is a perfect fit for the Rwandan government’s 2020 vision to become an information economy – and he added Africa as a whole is ripe with opportunity in the mobile communications arena for cloud computing, broadband and more.
“We see this as an opportunity to participate in probably the fastest growing component of the market for information and communication technology in the world right now.”
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