Glittering Macintosh desktops, Nikon cameras and many other electronic systems are some of the materials you will see at Kigali’s new multimedia institution called Africa Digital Multimedia Academy (ADMA) located in Kigali town.
According to Christopher Marler, ADMA’s Project Manager, he says that “Given a planning period of about 2 years, the government of Rwanda in partnership with multimedia Experts from USA, they have managed to gather high quality equipment necessary to provide products of the Hollywood standard.”
Marler who is a senior vice president of a California based multimedia company named PixelCorps, says that ADMA is to offer as far as five different levels of multimedia professional courses.
“We have an intake of 20 students who are on level 1 given the fact they are people who have been exercising a profession in the multimedia industry.” Explains the Multimedia Expert Marler
“Rwanda government has for the past years invested in development of ICT as evidenced by fibre optic cables inter-linking all Rwandan districts, thus given the ICT infrastructure and ADMA’s experts, this school guarantees high quality multimedia skills” said the Director General of Workforce Development Authority WDA Gasana Jerome.
The school is expected to begin offering studies on 5th March 2012, with 20 students enrolled who will later be joined by another bunch of 30students continuously every 3 months till a total of 100 students is reached required academic year.