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Rwanda’s cabinet approves a national AI policy

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Rwanda’s cabinet approved a National AI Policy with six priorities: AI skills and literacy, computing infrastructure, a data strategy, public-sector AI, private-sector adoption and ethical guidelines. The minister of ICT said 70% of the policy is about skills.

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Rwandan ministries have a cabinet-approved AI policy that puts most of its weight on skills, alongside compute, data and ethics rules.

When
20 Apr 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0175
Where
Rwanda
Who
Government of Rwanda, Ministry of ICT and Innovation (Rwanda); Paula Ingabire

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WTA-N-2023-0175: “Rwanda’s cabinet approves a national AI policy.” wheresthe.ai, 20 Apr 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/rw-national-ai-policy-2023-04/ (source: Access Partnership).

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