This project is designed to support Rwanda in its effort to become the champion in provision of digital infrastructure, technology and services and achieve the aspirations of the Digital Transformation for Africa initiative. [...] It will be funded by the World Bank Group’s International Development Association (IDA) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and it will be implemented through the Ministry of ICT and Innovation, Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA) and the Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD). [...] This will be achieved by developing and leveraging re-usable and shared digital infrastructure and platforms for digital identification and other trust services, as well as data management that (a) enable expansion of sectoral digitization and e-service initiatives; (b) allow the GoR to scale the provision of just-in-time critical G2G, G2B and G2C e-services; and (c) support big data analytics tha [...] The Rwandan government and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) recently launched the Rwanda Coding Academy in partnership with the Ministry of ICT, Ministry of Education and Rwanda Polytechnic. [...] The Project will be coordinated through the Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT), with the Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA) and the Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) as the Project implementing institutions.
Authors
- Disclosure Date
- 2021/11/04
- Disclosure Status
- Disclosed
- Doc Name
- Resettlement Process Framework Digital Acceleration Project (P173373)
- Originating Unit
- OPS2ATTACH
- Published in
- United States of America
- Rel Proj ID
- RW-Rwanda Digital Acceleration Project -- P173373,P173373
- Unit Owning
- Digital Dev - AFR W/CENTRAL/MENA
- Volume No
- 1