It's great to be back in Rwanda! It's cold and wet and there is still red mud everywhere - but I love it! I haven't seen much other than the inside of a conference hall and the hotel but certainly there are lots of (huge) new buildings around and the roads are all repaired with good pavements at the side and the central reservations have well-tended gardens. The whole of Kigali is being fitted with fibre-optic cable so that the ICT revolution can really take hold. For the past 2 days I have been in a workshop to discuss a national ICT in Education policy for Rwanda.
I've spent 2 evenings with my old counterpart, Paul, from Kigali Institute of Education - he's been updating me on all the news - there is certainly a lot going on here. Over the weekend I am meeting informally with several of the Ministry Directors who I knew from before ... to find out more about what is happening in education. On Sunday evening I am to have dinner with the Minister and the Education Adviser from DFID. On Monday morning I make a presentation to Ministry Senior Management meeting on my ideas for open schooling in Rwanda.
Not entirely sure what I am going to say yet ... but inspiration will come as I talk to people over the weekend. Tomorrow morning Paul is taking me to a Craft Expo ... looking forward to that. Oh .. and a message for George and John - the dawn chorus is just as loud as it ever was - wonderful!
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