A Steering Committee has been set up to work on IT partnership between financial and government institutions in charge of ICT development will start activities earlier in February 2010.  This decision was a result of elaborated discussions during a meeting held on 28^th January 2010 at the National Bank of Rwanda between Dr. Ignace Gatare, the Minister in charge of ICT in the President’s Office, Mr. François Kanimba, Central bank Governor and Mr. John Gara, CEO, Rwanda Development Board, Banks and insurance companies managing directors.  

With the exception of the Ministry in charge of ICT and the central bank, the steering committee will be composed among others by IT specialists representing public and private Insurance companies, banks and microfinance institutions associations. It will be chaired by Rwanda development board.

The Government of Rwanda is implementing an ICT master plan which has to include financial services providers needs. The proposed Steering Committee will help to identify big IT issues in the financial sector on that will require attention in the partnership with government. 

ICT connectivity in rural areas, bandwidth problems and information security are some of challenges that banks and insurance companies highlighted during the meeting. The partnership with Government institutions in charge of ICT development will mitigate and discuss some of these challenges.