The full registry.

Data Protection — Awareness & Capacity Building

Data Protection ·

Building institutional capacity, public awareness, and regulatory compliance for data protection.

Digital Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities

Digital Inclusion ·

Ensuring inclusive access to digital technologies and services for persons with disabilities in Rwanda.

National Robotics Program

National Robotics Program · Primary schools, secondary schools, and TVET schools

Enhancing teaching and learning experience by provision of robotics kits and training to the teachers to the schools.

Coding & Digital Skills Training Programs

Digital Skills Academy ·

Details to be completed by responsible team.

Data Protection Capacity Building

Data Protection ·

Details to be completed by responsible team.

TVET Digital Skills Integration

Digital Skills Academy ·

Details to be completed by responsible team.

Cybersecurity Skills Programs

Data Protection ·

Details to be completed by responsible team.

The Gym at Universities

Digital Skills Academy · University students

Training university students on advanced programming skills.

Digital Literacy Training for Persons with Disabilities

Digital Inclusion · Persons with Disabilities

A 10 days training for persons with disabilities on digital skills used in their daily lives

Internet Governance

Regional Programs ·

Strengthening African voices and capacity in global internet governance processes in collaboration with AFRINIC.

Africa Bulk Purchase Market Place (BPMP) – Smart Hub MVP development

Regional Programs ·

Design and implementation of BPMP Smart Hub MVP

Cooperation with the Private Sector – an Updated Partnerships Strategy

Smart Africa Secretariat Support ·

The Partnerships Strategy aims to define Smart Africa's value proposition to its Member States and public and private sector partners and members.

Smart Africa Digital Acceleration Program (SADAP)

Smart Africa Secretariat Support ·

Pan-African program supporting Member States in accelerating their digital transformation agendas.

Ms Geek Africa

Regional Programs ·

Pan-African competition empowering young women in STEM through innovation and problem-solving challenges.

Delegation Visit

Regional Programs ·

Annual high-level exchange between Smart Africa, BMZ, and GIZ, complemented by private sector and EU engagement in Berlin and Brussels, to advance digital and AI cooperation between Africa and Europe.

AI: Where the EU Wants to Offer More in Africa Than Its Competition from China and the US

Delivery & Implementation Support ·

EU Africa Tech Business Offer event bringing together European business and Smart Africa and their Member States in a matchmaking format

Cyber Security Trainings

Delivery & Implementation Support ·

Smart Africa hosts cyber security capacity trainings in five different Member States

Digital Sovereignty: Only Together Can We Remain Independent

Regional Programs ·

Joint opinion piece by GIZ and Smart Africa CEOs on the shared interests of Africa and Europe when it comes to digital sovereignty

Africa Bulk Purchase Market Place (BPMP) – Country Engagement Workshops

Events & Convenings ·

Stakeholder engagement workshop

Apple Authorized Training Centers

Skills Development · University students

Establishment of six Apple Authorized Training Centers across six education institutions in Rwanda

Robotics Maker's Lab (NGA)

National Robotics Program · Teachers · Students · Community

The New Generation Academy Robotics Maker’s Lab is a GIZ-supported, MINICT-partnered innovation hub in Kigali that provides hands-on STEM education in coding and robotics for Rwandan students and teachers. Officially inaugurated in November 2024, the lab is equipped with 3D printers, laser cutters, and VR headsets, serving up to 25 learners per session and accessible to schools across Kigali during regular hours and holidays. It supports Rwanda’s national robotics program by bridging the technology gap and building 21st-century digital skills aligned with the competence-based curriculum.

Digital Inclusion Training Center

Digital Inclusion · Persons with Disabilities and women

Establishment of Digital Inclusion Training Center for persons with disabilities and women

Digital Literacy for Entrepreneurs

Skills Development · Entrepreneurs

Digital literacy training for entrepreneurs

Transferlab

Skills Development · Tech-startups · Youth

The transfer lab was a specialized facility at the Digital Transformation Center Rwanda where people could build embedded systems, IoT, VR/AR and work on hardware prototypes. It provided technical equipment and development space to support the prototyping of Rwandan and African tech solutions as part of Rwanda's transition to a knowledge-based economy.

Digital Ambassadors Program (DAP)

Skills Development · Communities · Youth

Digital ambassadors training program

FLL & AI Hackathon Support

National Robotics Program · Students · Youth · Robotics · AI

Since 2023, GIZ/DTC has supported Rwanda’s First Lego League (FLL) and AI Hackathon to strengthen STEM and digital literacy. Support includes funding competitions, teacher training, robotics kits, AI mentorship, and pathways for teams to advance to international events, empowering students aged 9–18 with robotics, programming, and AI skills for future innovation.

Digital Literacy for Community Health Workers

Skills Development · Community Health Workers

Digital literacy training for community health workers

Cyberhub

Skills Development ·

Cybersecurity capacity-building hub

Virtual Laboratories for chemistry and physics in Schools

Skills Development · Students · Teachers

Virtual laboratories for schools

Community of Practice - Robotics

National Robotics Program · Teachers · Practitioners · students · universities

Community of Practice for robotics in Rwanda. Community of practice for robotics education and ecosystem support in partnership with MINICT. These were community events that were organized primarily by GIZ in collaboration with MINICT, hosting various academia, industry and policy actors interested in Robotics field. It consisted of Time to learn, Meet-ups, Demo sessions, and co-design workshops.

Digital marketing training for women entrepreneurs

Skills Development · Women entrepreneurs

Digital marketing training for women entrepreneurs

Digital Literacy training for farmers

Skills Development · Farmers

Digital literacy training for farmers

Cybersecurity training

Skills Development · Broadcasters · ICT professionals

Cybersecurity training for broadcasters

Government of Rwanda Public Service Request Portal

Digital Government Services · Public Service

Public service request portal.

Great Lakes Regional Minerals Database and Data Sharing Solution

Digital Government Services · Mineral industry

Regional platform for ICGLR member states for traceability, certification, reporting, and secure data governance.

National Emerging Technology Policy (NETP)

Policy Lab · Government agencies · regulators · innovators · technology ecosystem actors

Policy framework for responsible adoption of emerging technologies in Rwanda.

Centralised Citizen Engagement Platform (Mbaza Rwanda)

Digital Government Services · Citizens · low-literacy users · feature-phone users · public institutions

Mbaza Citizen Engagement

Policy Lab Broadband Pricing Investigation

Policy Lab · Government · regulators · telecom operators · corporate users · digital economy actors

Policy investigation into high corporate broadband costs in Rwanda.

Integrated Blood Bank Information System (BBIS)

Digital Government Services · Blood donors · hospitals · patients · RBC staff · health facilities

The system used for blood donor management and recruitment, dispatch, inventory, TTI testing, and delivery of blood

Geological Information and Mining Cadastre System (GIMCS) for the ICGLR Project

Digital Government Services · Mineral industry

Location of all geological information on mining.

Policy Lab Cooperative Digitisation Investigation

Policy Lab · Cooperatives · regulators · innovators · financial actors · policy makers

Ongoing investigation into barriers to digitising cooperatives in Rwanda.

Creation of One Life Component for One Health (Government of Rwanda)

Digital Government Services · Human health · animal health · wildlife · environmental health institutions

Three One Health data projects strengthening surveillance across sectors.

ICT Sector Strategic Plan 2024-2029

Policy Lab · MINICT · RISA · government agencies · development partners · ICT sector actors

National strategic plan guiding Rwanda's ICT sector priorities.

Smart City Solve-athon

Smart City · Districts · startups · innovators · citizens · local government teams

Co-creation sprint for smart city solutions in Rwanda's secondary cities.

Cross-Border Cash/BNIs Declaration System (FIC)

Digital Government Services · Financial sector

Digitised cash and bearer-instrument declarations for travellers at Rwanda's borders, implemented by FIC.

ICT Sector Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Policy Lab · MINICT · RISA · affiliated agencies · ICT sector teams

Sector-wide SOPs to operationalise the ICT Sector Strategic Plan.

Digital Mineral Traceability System (DMTS) for the ICGLR Project

Digital Government Services · Mineral industry

Mineral traceability system for Rwandan mineral sector.

E-Waste Awareness Campaign "Kusanya"

Smart City · Citizens · corporates · public institutions · schools · urban communities

Digital and public awareness campaign promoting responsible e-waste disposal.

AI for Policy Makers Crash Course

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Preparing government leaders for responsible AI (2021)

AfricAI Conference

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Africa-driven dialogue on responsible and open-source AI (2023)

Innovate Africa Challenge on AI for Climate Action

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

A pan-African challenge supporting AI-driven climate solutions across Ghana, Rwanda, and Kenya, with €50k in funding and technical support for the winning innovation.

National AI Policy

AI Policy & Governance ·

Helping Rwanda shape AI on its own terms (2020–2023)

ML4EO Training Program

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Machine learning for Earth observation course that trained 40 participants with the Rwanda Space Agency, DLR and CMU Africa.

Landslide Monitoring System

AI & Data Innovations ·

Using computer vision for continuous monitoring of landslide-prone areas in Rwanda.

Responsible AI Office

AI Policy & Governance ·

An institutional home for implementing the National AI Policy (since 2023)

Crop Type Mapping Tool

AI & Data Innovations ·

Satellite data and AI for better agricultural monitoring (2025)

IndabaX Rwanda 2024 & Deep Learning Indaba

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Connecting Rwandan talent to Africa’s machine learning community (2024)

AI Training for Parliamentarians

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

AI knowledge for lawmakers (2026)

Evaluation Metrics of Machine Translation

AI & Data Innovations ·

AI tool with Mbaza volunteers and DFKI for automatic evaluation of Kinyarwanda–English machine translation.

NLP Fellowship

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Nine-month fellowship with RISA, HuzaLabs and Localis building Kinyarwanda language technologies for digital public services. (2023)

Capacity Building for Data Engineers

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Six-month project-based AI training for 15 civil servants, each solving a real use case from their institution.

AI Fellowships

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Two fellowship cohorts with TU Chemnitz trained 60 engineering graduates in ML, NLP, data science and computer vision.

Machine Translation for Moodle LMS

AI & Data Innovations ·

E-learning in learners’ own language (2024)

Data Governance Frameworks and Business Models

AI Policy & Governance ·

Natural Language Processing Training

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

45 participants trained in NLP and machine learning applied to Kinyarwanda language data. (2021)

AI Readiness & Maturity Assessment Framework

AI Policy & Governance ·

Framework by MINICT and C4IR Rwanda to analyse the Rwandan AI ecosystem and measure its progress.

Africa-Asia AI Policy Maker Network

AI Policy & Governance ·

Peer learning for responsible AI policy across two continents (since 2022)

AI for Media

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Helping journalists use AI and counter misinformation (2025)

AI Hackathons

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Hands-on innovation across Rwanda’s tech ecosystem (since 2020)

Machine Learning Training

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Building core data and AI skills for real-world challenges (2020)

International Conference on Learning Representations 2023

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Participation of Rwandan AI community members at ICLR 2023, hosted in Kigali.

DISA Phase II – Digital Information System for Sustainable and Modernised Agriculture

AI & Data Innovations ·

Scaling location-specific digital agricultural advisory services across Rwanda (2026–2027).

Innovation vs Data Extractivism – Open Source Licenses in the Rwandan Context

AI & Data Innovations ·

Study on open vs. alternative licenses (Esethu, Noodle) for Kinyarwanda AI resources and the risk of data extractivism.

Core Support to Rwandan AI Communities

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Keeping Rwanda’s grassroots AI communities active (since 2020)

CHABO framework

AI & Data Innovations ·

Open-source infrastructure for chatbot services in Kinyarwanda (2026)

Rwanda Media Voice Bridge

AI & Data Innovations ·

Automatic Kinyarwanda transcription and translation for media (2026)

Easy Read Together

AI & Data Innovations ·

AI that makes important information easy to understand (2025)

Mbaza Community Management (MbazaNLP)

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

An open community for Kinyarwanda language AI (since 2022)

NLP Training for Linguists

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Building the people behind language data (2023)

Tunga Voicebot for Rwandan Farmers

AI & Data Innovations · Farmers

24/7 AI voice hotline in Kinyarwanda giving farmers pest diagnosis, agro-climatic advice and MINAGRI programme updates. (2026)

Tunga Agri-Chatbot Open Source Suite

AI & Data Innovations ·

Open-source suite of Kinyarwanda AI models, datasets and code for building phone voicebots, e.g. for agriculture.

AI for Women Bootcamp

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support · Women aged 18–45

Opening pathways for women into AI and data science careers (2024)

AI for the Judiciary

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

AI, rule of law and human rights in the justice sector (2024)

MBAZA Covid19 Chatbot

AI & Data Innovations ·

AI chatbot delivering verified health information in Kinyarwanda, English and French reaching 1.16 million users. (2020)

AI Ethical Guidelines Training

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

15 company representatives trained on applying ethical AI guidelines, supported by a regulatory sandbox.

Community Research Support

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Applied research support for community members, incl. multilingual ASR, Global PIQA and KinyCOMET.

AI Innovation Lab

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Connecting innovators with Rwanda’s priority AI challenges (since 2023)

Drone Blueprint for Africa

Drone Operation Center · Policy makers · Government Partners

This project will create a comprehensive blueprint for the use and regulation of drones across Africa. The blueprint will focus on creating harmonized regulatory standards, fostering innovation, and promoting cross-border collaborations to leverage drones for sustainable economic growth and enhanced public services across African nations.

User Centered Design for Drone Use Cases in Rwanda

Drone Operation Center · Youth · University Students

The project aims to identify and develop context-specific drone use cases in Rwanda based on the priorities and needs of local communities.

Drone Community of Practice

Drone Operation Center · Youth

The project aims to build a drone ecosystem in Rwanda with focus on developing an ecosystem analysis report, community platform and community events & workshops.

Mapping Initiative Gisagara District

Drone Use Cases · Community

Malaria has re-emerged as a significant public health challenge in Rwanda in 2024, reversing the notable progress achieved between 2018 and 2023. In response, the Ministry of Health is implementing a national response plan aimed at strengthening surveillance, analyzing data, and addressing factors contributing to the resurgence

University of Rwanda Fundamental Drones Skills Training

Drone Training · Youth · University Students

2 cohorts, 5-week long bootcamp on drones on the following topics: drone types and uses, drone communication protocol, mapping and flying basics

Licensed Drone Pilot Program

Drone Training · Youth · University Students

Full and certified drone piloting training programme, open to interested individuals with the right industry orientation.

Licensed Drone Pilot Program for Women

Drone Training · Women · Youth · Public sector

Fully certified drone pilot training programme. The programme focuses on empowering women with certified professional drone piloting skills and strengthening their participation in Rwanda's drone operation ecosystem.

Malaria Larval Source Management Project in Bugesera

Drone Use Cases · Farmers

The project aims to combat malaria through spraying rice fields in Bugesera. The rice fields have been known to harbor large amounts of mosquito larvae which affects farming, education and general health of the people living in the area.

Innovate Africa Challenge on Civil Drones

Drone Use Cases · Startups

3-phase challenge with a changing theme every edition, aimed at supporting start-ups to scope out a solution for implementation. The project is in collaboration with Smart Africa.

GBV & SRHR Information Chatbot

AI & Data Innovations ·

Expanding access to information on gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Rwanda (2021–2024)

Rwandan GPU Server

AI Skills & Ecosystem Support ·

Strengthening Rwanda's local AI infrastructure and computing capacity.