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Rwanda — National Artificial Intelligence Policy

Published20 April 2023

Issued by Ministry of ICT and Innovation.

Summary

Rwanda’s National Artificial Intelligence Policy set out a comprehensive roadmap for ethical AI integration across sectors including agriculture, healthcare, and public services. The policy emphasised local skills development, technology hubs, and academic pathways as foundations for national AI capability. It also addressed data sovereignty and security by linking AI deployment to Rwanda’s data protection framework and proposing national data-sharing arrangements and compute sandboxes. The policy positioned AI governance as both an economic development strategy and a framework for responsible public-sector and sectoral adoption.

Why it matters

National AI roadmap; ethical AI integration across agriculture, healthcare, and public services; local skills development; technology hubs and curriculum pathways; data sovereignty and security; national data-sharing frameworks; cloud compute sandboxes.

Topics

Record metadata

Country
Rwanda
Region
Africa
Organisation
Ministry of ICT and Innovation
Document type
Policy / Strategy
Status
Published
Publication date
20 April 2023
Last updated
27 June 2026
Language
English
Original source
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Citation export

Plain citation

Ministry of ICT and Innovation, National Artificial Intelligence Policy, 20 April 2023.

BibTeX

@misc{rwanda_national_artificial_intelligence_policy_2023,
  title        = {Rwanda — National Artificial Intelligence Policy},
  author       = {Ministry of ICT and Innovation},
  year         = {2023},
  howpublished = {Global AI Governance Archive},
  url          = {https://www.minict.gov.rw/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=55223&token=ca3ebf2a7db781f143c1626046e7f1cb9652a230}
}

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Recorded cross-references

  • African Union — Preliminary Working Framework
  • Singapore — National AI Strategy 2.0
  • Australia — Safe and Responsible AI discussion paper

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