Capacity Building & Digital Literacy

The Digital Transformation Center is actively involved primarily in the areas of capacity-building and digital literacy. The target group ranges from people in rural areas, women and people with disabilities to ICT professionals, tech startups and employees of our political partner agencies such as MINICT, RISA and NIRDA.

The focus of each trainings varies. While some trainings are tailored to advanced expertise such as emerging technologies, other trainings focus more on advancing business aspects such as business modeling or user research. Another important component of capacity building is the use of the Atingi e-learning platform, which is being used to pilot approaches to self-paced learning in Rwanda. Registration and use are free for all students, entrepreneurs and professionals. Content is regularly developed and made available on the platform. Courses range from career guidance for students, financial and business skills courses for entrepreneurs, to skills enhancement for professionals to work more efficiently.

Programs

Digital Ambassadors Program

The Digital Ambassadors Program is an initiative led by the Rwandan Ministry of ICT and Innovation aiming to increase the number of digitally literate citizens and their use of e-government and e-business services. The Digital Ambassadors manage Services Access Points in all 30 districts in Rwanda and offer digital literacy skills to citizens.

Through a competitive application process, 93 Digital Ambassadors were selected to go through a training program from 14th December 2020 to 12th February 2021. During this period, they received support enabling them to turn their ideas into sustainable businesses.

The support from MINICT was critical to equip the Digital Ambassadors with what essentially served as a start-up kit of assets as well as an enabling environment to run their digital business:

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such as laptops, internet, office space and a fully equipped training room

IoT & Machine Learning Trainings

Emerging technologies like IoT and machine learning come with endless new opportunities for Africa. Consequently, there is a need for highly skilled IoT-innovators all over the continent. That is why the DigiCenter hosted several workshops to train Rwanda’s IoT and machine learning professionals of tomorrow. In total, 315 people were trained in 4-day courses.

Training the next IoT-Innovators of Rwanda

Emerging technologies like IoT come with endless new opportunities for Africa. Consequently, there is a need for highly skilled IoT-innovaters all over the continent. That is why the DigiCenter is hosting workshops to train Rwanda’s IoT-professionals of tomorrow.

Enabling Rwandan Communities to solve Real World Challenges through Machine Learning Trainings

Artificial Intelligence developers and innovators are in high demand on the job market. Therefore, our trainings support skilled newcomers to gain knowledge in machine learning and enable them to create new products and services.

Public Sector Training & Coaching

In order to sustainably transform Rwanda into a digital and knowledge society, the public sector needs the capability to strategize and implement ICT projects in the country.

For this purpose, the DigiCenter has facilitated training and on-the-job coaching to members of MINICT, RISA, NIRDA, RDB and other public actors on e.g. project management, code & design and system architecture. One of the main goals of these trainings was to strengthen the capacities of the public sector to realize the Smart Rwanda Masterplan. The DigiCenter recently assessed the impact of the trainings provided with 70% of the participants stating to have improved or greatly improved to implement the Smart Rwanda Masterplan.

Artificial Intelligence Fellowship program

The AI Fellowship program aims to bridge the gap between academia and the private sector when it comes to AI skills.

In partnership with the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany and Leapr Labs, the DigiCenter is currently supporting 15 fellows through a 2-step process. First, the fellows undergo a 3-months intensive training to acquire AI-related skills. In a second step, the fellows are matched with a private sector or government institution, where they will practically apply their skills on a specific AI project selected by the institution.

Communities bring stakeholders from both public and private institutions together and encourage Rwandans interested in the above topics to innovate solutions to the existing problems.

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Call us: +250 785 151 218 or

Email: dtc-rwanda@giz.de