{{Your Excellency, Paul KAGAME,

The President of the Republic of Rwanda;}}

My Company operates in more than twenty countries across Africa and Asia. We have been carefully analyzing the leadership of those countries and their support towards ICT development and communications. Your leadership is unique.

When StarTimes Group launched its operations in Africa in 2008; we decided to start from Rwanda because of your visionary leadership and commitment to ICT as an enabler of good governance and economic development.

From here in Rwanda, our company is operating in all East African countries and beyond.

Also, StarTimes Group has been analyzing carefully the choices made by your country, after the genocide against Tutsi was perpetrated in Rwanda, twenty years ago, with media being used as one of key instruments of genocide. Those choices are; UNITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, and THINKING BIG.

Your Excellency, Mr President of Rwanda;

Recognizing both your visionary leadership and your commitment towards meeting the set objectives of Vision 2020 in promoting ICT and communications as well as the three choices made by your Country;

StarTimes Group awards you with its first ever “Number One in ICT and Communications Award”.

This Award is designed in a form of handicraft called “Ding” in Chinese and translated as “tripod”. In Chinese history and culture, possession of one or more ancient “Ding” or tripod is often associated with power and dominion over the land.

Therefore, the “Ding” or tripod is often used as an implicit symbolism for power and eminence. As a ritual vessel in ancient China, “Ding” or tripod could be used to record great performance or imperial awards for King and ministers in grand ceremony.

Nowadays, “Ding” symbolizes solidarity, unity and authority, representing peace, stability, development and prosperity which Rwanda has greatly achieved under the leadership of H.E. Paul KAGAME.

The phrase of “NO.1 IN ICT & COMMUNICATIONS” on the Tripod aims to express the gratitude to your valuable contribution in the field of ICT and my highest respects to you and you are the first African Leader to receive this Award. You really deserve it.

Your Excellency, as the deadline of digital migration set by ITU is approaching, which is June 17th, 2015, we don’t have so much time left.

With the current foundation in the DTV industry of Rwanda, StarTimes hopes to make our contributions together with Rwanda government to realize the Digitalization of broadcasting & TV industry in Rwanda. We hope to have your support on it again.

Chairman of StarTimes Group

Pang Xinxing