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The world’s next tech hub: Rwanda?

Rwanda is laying the groundwork to one day become a competitor to Silicon Valley.

On Mondays we often like to talk big ideas. So how about turning Rwanda into the next Silicon Valley? The country hopes to do just by building what it’s calling a “knowledge based economy,” with initiatives like infrastructure projects and bringing computing into the country’s classrooms. Lerato Mbele of the BBC has the full story.

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