{"id":14438,"date":"2019-05-17T19:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/?p=14438"},"modified":"2019-05-17T19:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:01:50","slug":"president-kagame-attends-vivatech-2019-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=14438","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame attends VivaTech 2019 in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Paris, 17 May 2019<\/p>\n<div><span lang=\"en-GB\">President Kagame today attended this year&#8217;s edition of Viva Technology Conference, known as &#8220;VivaTech&#8221;-\u00a0the world\u2019s rendezvous for startups and leaders to celebrate innovation.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-GB\">Held in Paris from 16-18 May 2019, VivaTech is an annual international technology conference, dedicated to innovation-driven enterprises and startups.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-GB\">President Kagame and President Macky Sall of Senegal shared Africa&#8217;s progress in digital economy in a Fireside chat moderated by Maurice L\u00e9vy, the Chairman of Publicis Groupe.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Technology is as old as our societies or these traditions. But those were old technologies. Some of the new technologies have been derived from these old technologies. In whichever sector of the society we are talking about. It became very clear from the beginning that technology is going to be a bridge between the traditional part of our continued growth into the future, and then connecting the past with the future, and we have to be laying this bridge in the present. Technology serves many purposes: it brings societies together, it brings a multiplier effect to everything one is doing in whichever sector with the efficiencies that come with it,&#8221; President Kagame said.<\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-GB\">In its fourth edition, VivaTech convenes over 100,000 of the world&#8217;s brightest minds and talents from 125 countries all over the world, of which 9,000 are startups and 1,900 investors.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-GB\">VivaTech showcases Africa&#8217;s innovative tech ecosystems through\u00a0Afric@Tech Zone which highlights more than 100 startups from Africa. Countries highlighted include\u00a0Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Cameroon, Mauritius,\u00a0and Rwanda.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-GB\">Seven companies from Rwanda are showcasing the growing innovation taking place in the country as well as the investment opportunities presented by\u00a0the Kigali Innovation City and Knowledge hub.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The President later paid a courtesy call to La Francophonie Secretary-General Louise Mushikiwabo at her office in Paris where the two leaders held talks.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, 17 May 2019 President Kagame today attended this year&#8217;s edition of Viva Technology Conference, known as &#8220;VivaTech&#8221;-\u00a0the world\u2019s rendezvous for startups and leaders to celebrate innovation. \u00a0 Held in Paris from 16-18 May 2019, VivaTech is an annual international technology conference, dedicated to innovation-driven enterprises and startups.\u00a0 President Kagame and President Macky Sall of Senegal shared Africa&#8217;s progress in digital economy in a Fireside chat moderated by Maurice L\u00e9vy, the Chairman of Publicis Groupe. &#8220;Technology is as old as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14440,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14438\/revisions\/14440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}