It is without a doubt that smart cities extend beyond infrastructure and urban planning. For a smart city to work, it requires smart citizens and technology plays a pivotal role in enabling civic engagement. If a city wants to empower those who live in it, it requires initiatives that improve service delivery and technology is the solution to making e-government platforms a reality.
Category: Rwanda News
Rwanda News
Empowering women through investment and financial inclusion
In this piece, Hortense Mudenge tells how financial inclusion can be a game-changer for African women across the informal economy.
ATI rebrands to ATIDI, opens its 2023 AGM in Recovery-prone Context
The Pan-African trade and investment development insurer, ATIDI, holds its Annual General Meetings in Kigali amidst global and regional recovery.
Kigali International Financial Centre (KIFC) aims to empower women through investment and financial inclusion
The thought leadership penned by the COO of RFL, Hortense Mudenge, on the importance of female-focused investment and how it can drive Africa and its fintech space forward.
Payday re-launches in Rwanda with SpaceX’s Starlink
Africa’s leading neobank’s expansion into Rwanda aims at making digital banking accessible to all remote workers & professionals on the continent while ensuring access to […]
Toggle Market’s B2B ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ continues its expansion across the African continent and now launches in Rwanda
Toggle Market’s B2B BNPL product Toggle Finance is aimed at SMEs seeking trade finance alternatives across multiple industry sectors, and is also available for all […]
Are you a threat or an opportunity for biodiversity?
By Josephine Wawira Kigali, a city that rhythms with African charm, prides itself on biodiversity so well maintained, sprawling over green valleys and ridges, the […]
Practical Action announces collaboration to raise new finance for climate and water resilient cities in Africa
The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Rwanda highlighted the degree to which urbanization will be one of the most significant changes we face in […]
How tracking methane helps fight climate change
By Antoine Rostand, President and Founder of Kayrros The need to track and reduce greenhouse gas emissions has never been more urgent. According to the […]
Data security and privacy laws develop across Africa
Numerous countries in Africa have developed or implemented data privacy and security laws in their countries in the last few years. With the rapid rise […]