The full registry.

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)

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.