Rwandan Government and Ericsson partner for Smart Rwanda initiative

The Rwanda Ministry of Youth and ICT previously announced a partnership with Ericsson to design a roadmap and deploy solutions and services required to create a fully functioning knowledge-based society. The Smart Rwanda Initiative is geared towards connecting, innovating and transforming Rwanda into a knowledge economy thereby driving Rwanda’s global competitiveness and job creation.

The initiative also aims at enabling Rwanda become a highly competitive, agile, open and innovative smart economy with the most favorable business climate that attracts large-scale investments, rewards entrepreneurship and enables fast growth and exports, leveraging ICT innovations to transform the nation into a smart society.

In this partnership, Ericsson will be a trusted advisor, systems integrator, and implementation partner for the solutions and services required in the development and launch of the Smart Rwanda initiative.

The partnership will be a long-term collaboration between Ericsson and the respective government agencies involved; focused on building capacity and eventually being handed over to the government along with selected private sector players. Based on the leading role that Rwanda plays in the Smart Africa Alliance, this collaboration will establish a public private partnership model that can benefit other members of the alliance.

Upon the finalisation of scoping the required solutions, all involved parties will jointly agree on the investment business models that best suit what is required to most efficiently roll out this new vision. Additionally, the inclusion of outside participation from third party investors will be discussed and finalised.

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