Facebook-Rwanda: Facebook to Launch Kinyarwanda Version

 Ange Kagame, Rwandan President's daughter (dessin par Kagame Fresco)

When Rwanda hosts this year's Transform Africa summit in three-day's time, one of the events to look out for will be Facebook's ceremony to launch Internet.org and Facebook in Kinyarwanda, the main language spoken in Rwanda.

The 'Transform Africa 2015' summit, that takes place between October 19-21, will be co-hosted by Rwanda President Paul Kagame and Houlin Zhao Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

The summit will also see the launch of the Global Innovation and SME platform.

The summit will bring together heads of states from several African countries, delegates from UN Broadband Commission on digital Development, heads of Smart Africa organisations, technology chief executives, technology experts, young innovators and women technologists from a cross Africa and beyond.

This high-level event will be held under the theme, "Accelerating Digital Innovation," and is expected to discuss among other things Africa's digital talent and foster cross border entrepreneurship. It has been announced that 2500 delegates from 46 countries among whom will be 50 speakers will be attending the summit. Additionally, 42 African companies and 25 foreign companies will be participating.

The Summit that will feature a wide range of events according to the summit website, will be a platform for showcasing "exponential technologies powered by broadband connectivity such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing, Big Data, Analytics, Social Media, UAV (Drones) are creating unprecedented new challenges and opportunities across the world, both in private and public sectors. Combined with an impressive growth in mobility, a revolution in financial services and a tech-savvy youthful population, these technologies have the potential of ushering Africa into the global digital economy."

It will also feature a "Leaders' summit: bringing together Heads of State and Governments to address a plenary audience in a visionary session. During the summit, the Smart Africa Board meeting will run in parallel as a closed session attended by members of the Smart Africa Alliance."