Happy Holidays, and ahead into 2011

As the holidays season gets into full swing and another year draws to a close, We want to pause for a moment and thank you, our partners and members for making 2010, such a terrific year for igihe ltd.

With your participation more than 6,616,871 Visits with a total of 23,564,688 Pageviews made www.igihe.com the most consulted online resource in the history of our country – Rwanda. Never before all these Rwandans expressed interest in Reading to get informed. This is of course without mentioning the forums, and other discussion going on with this online community that www.igihe.com has become.

www.igihe.com has created a complete new culture, a new way of perceiving and accessing information, a new consciousness and this has been done in only a year of existence, revolutionizing the relationship between Rwandan people and the World Wide Web.

All this year long, we as igihe team, hasn’t stopped learning, about culture, society, business, politics, computer science,… with every problem we faced, the smart and innovative solutions we brought up only made us stronger, and opened the way for new ideas, and a more optimized products.

Igihe ltd is one of the first “silicon valley’s style” start ups, that is actually successful in the tough cultural context of Rwanda. In many ways the story of Igihe ltd, is similar to that of more famous elders, such as Apple, Microsoft, Adobe… We all started in a garage.

Igihe ltd is young (both the members and the company). We are motivated by the desire to positively change the society in which we evolve. And all of this is being made possible thanks to the collaboration you have with us.

From myself, and the entire igihe team, we wish you a happy and safe holiday season.

Liambi Willy Igihe ltd CTO.

Brand new design for igihe.com, comming soon!

Hey there,

It has been a while now that the technical team at igihe.com and our partners have been working on setting up an international standard designed website! The design is almost completed and we are planing to launching it soon enough.

The problem

The current igihe.com interface does not fit international standards. When designing the current version of the site. We just focused on creating an interface that would be accessible to the Rwandese people, who we must say back then (A year ago) did not really have specific expectations about what a good website should look like. That time is long gone now, we need to increase the quality and ergonomics of the interface to bring the most pleasant web experience to both first time visitors and unique existing visitors.

The current design had problem regarding:

1. International standards
2. Ergonomics
3. Navigability
4. accessibility
5. Cross browsers compatibility

One more problem with the current version of the site, is it's lack of automation. Basically almost any part of the site needs to be insterted from it's source code. Which makes updating the different components of the site, very hard for the technical team (Which are me and a friend of mine :) ).

The solution

The new interface should dramatically increase user experience both for the visitors and for the managers of the site. We have also been thinking about changing the software that manages the content on the site, moving from the "IGIHE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM" to the well now french CMS (SPIP) but for now we are still develloping the plugin to will make that migration possible without loss of data . This is of little consequence, to the visitors of the site cause the only change they will notice is the change to the different interfaces of the site.

So, all we need now is to finilize the latest test with the interface, especially for Cross Browser Compatibility, to make sure that the site looks exactelly the same on all the major browsers (Mozilla,Chrome,IE,Opera). In about a week from now the new design for www.igihe.com should be in place and of course we will need to know what your response will be.

Opening the Igihe ltd blog

Hello!

Welcome to the official blog of igihe ltd, the company that publishes the website www.igihe.com but also its soon to come english version. This blog, could have been created since the launch of Igihe ltd but we were let say quite busy at work. This blog will also be a way for us to communicate about what we do internally and why we do it.

Why this blog?

Our goal is to explain our overall strategy to the visitors of www.igihe.com,which will probably be the first readers of this blog, taking into account the fact that many of them are not yet fully familiar with The world of information technology business.

We found that many visitors www.igihe.com did not understand certain things related to the Igihe ltd company that seemed obvious to us. Even elementary. And we can not blame them: we either we are not born with the innate knowledge, we are not accountants,we do not know all the things that run the world in which we live. We have made mistakes, we make and we will certainly be others. It's healthy. That's how you learn. And it's even better if that experience is shared, hence the reason for this blog.

About Us

This blog will be moderated by all the members of the current team of the www.igihe.com editors and journalists, which we will occasionally from time to time present to you. In addition to wanting to communicate what we do for www.igihe.com,we also hope to arouse the curiosity of some of you and maybe inspire in you an interest in entrepreneurship.

In fact, one entrepreneur is much closer to an employee than you think. Both have their share of worries, fears and reasons to appreciate what they do.They just see these things with a different angle. Maybe the experience we have acquired running igihe.com will be of some form of help to all of you students and other people who want to start in this business.We hope through this blog, giving you a much better idea of our point of view of the information technology business that is still in its infancy in our country Rwanda.