Walter Fust, Director-General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, said his Agency was supporting the Kigali summit to keep ICT for development high on the political agenda, to broaden the discussion to innovative financing mechanisms and local content, and to support "the mobilizing of the doers, not only of the talkers".

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The Director-General continued by saying that these regional encounters have positioned culture at the heart of the regional development and cooperation agenda.

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