Youth Association for Dissemination of Development Information (YADDI)

YADDI's strategy involves bringing information to the population - in particular, young Rwandans - through the use of ICTs. For instance, the organisation uses the internet to help secure youth welfare through a process of raising awareness of the negative impact of HIV/AIDS and other pandemics on their social and economic activities. ICT training and provision of services is also envisioned as a tool for developing a culture of entrepreneurship among Rwanda's youth.

Specifically, the organisation has established both a Centre for Dissemination of Development Information (CDDI) and a multipurpose telecentre that provides ICT services. The project’s multipurpose telecentres:

• provide computer training for community members,
• provide internet connections to enable people to surf the web and exchange emails and communicate via the internet
• provide photocopiers, scanners, telephone lines and mobile phone sets, as well as fax, laminating, and binding machines, to assist the population and the students in producing their documents and receiving and making calls
• provide typing services (business plans, reports, academic dissertations, and mémoires)
• produce promotional materials (business cards, personal/family and administrative invitations, visit cards and brochures)
• rent multipurpose telecentre equipment to other organisation and associations
• offer internship opportunities to the secondary students registered in Elo-Informatic sections.

Youth, Technology.