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5Feb

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INNOVATIONS IN CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

How technology is empowering smart citizens. By Mpho Matsitse, Executive: Business & Digital Advisory at BCX There’s no question that a smart city extends 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. While there are many African cities leveraging technology in different ways to benefit their citizens, Rwanda’s booming IremboGov platform is a phenomenal example of GovTech digitalisation. Since its 2015 launch, IremboGov has digitised over 100 public services from motor vehicle inspections to mar...

27Aug

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Rwanda News

Empowering women through investment and financial inclusion

By Hortense Mudenge, Chief Strategy Officer of Rwanda Finance Limited Last year, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index report ranked Rwanda as first in Africa and sixth in the world for gender parity. At 82%, Rwanda also has one of the highest female labour force participation rates globally, with women comprising 41% of professional and technical workers (World Bank, Gender Data Portal, 2022). Furthermore, Rwanda has the highest proportion of women in parliament globally, with women holding 61.3% of seats in the lower house of parliament as of 2022, and the most women in ministerial positions. However, as yet in 2023, no country in the world has achieved full gender parity. In July, Rwanda had the honour of hosting the Women Deliver Conference 2023 and welcoming 6000 deleg...

6Jul

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African News, Rwanda News

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. ATIDI has begun implementation of its 2023-2027 corporate strategic plan, aimed at business and footprint growth. The organization has unveiled its new brand identity, rebranding from ATI to ATIDI Kigali, Rwanda, 06 July 2023 – Rwanda’s Prime Minister opened the African Trade and Investment Development Insurance’s (ATIDI) 2023 Annual General Meeting (AGM) today. The AGM, which gathers representatives of the multilaterals’ 21-member states and a few representatives from non-member shareholders, will validate its results for the challenging fiscal year 2022 - marked by massive headwinds stemming from health, political, economic and...

29Jun

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Fintech, Rwanda News

Kigali International Financial Centre (KIFC) aims to empower women through investment and financial inclusion

By Hortense Mudenge, Chief Operations Officer of Rwanda Finance Limited Last year, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index report ranked Rwanda as first in Africa and sixth in the world for gender parity. At 82%, Rwanda also has one of the highest female labour force participation rates globally, with women comprising 41% of professional and technical workers. Furthermore, Rwanda has the highest proportion of women in parliament globally, with women holding 61.3% of seats in the lower house of parliament as of 2022, and the most women in ministerial positions. Rwanda's financial sector has traditionally been male dominated but recent years have seen a shift, with more women taking on leadership roles. In the banking industry, six of the 15 CEOs or MDs are women, representing 4...

Payday re-launches in Rwanda with SpaceX’s Starlink

25Apr

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Fintech, Rwanda News

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 fast and reliable internet connection Payday, the leading Pan-African neobank issuing global (USD, GBP & EUR) accounts to Africans, has announced its re-entry into Rwanda, following the official launch of SpaceX’s Starlink in the East African country. The re-entry into Rwanda marks a significant milestone in Payday’s Pan-African and global expansion plans, as well as its burgeoning working relationship as a payment processor for Starlink by SpaceX. Announced in February 2023, Rwandans can purchase Starlink routers from the satellite communications corporation, as the country looks to meet its overall targets fo...

2Feb

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Business, Rwanda News

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 qualified customers of its marketplace Toggle Hospitality With a growing customer base for its trade, financing and freight & logistics services extending across Europe; the Middle East and in particular the GCC and Jordan; Africa in Kenya, South Africa, Congo, Nigeria; and now all services operational in Rwanda. Toggle Market operates and develops B2B e-commerce marketplaces and provides cross-border trade and commerce solutions designed to support SMEs. Toggle Market announces the launch of Toggle Finance, it’s innovative B2B product aimed at SMEs seeking supply chain trade finance and payable financing alternativ...

Are you a threat or an opportunity for biodiversity?

15Dec

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African News, Energy, Events, Rwanda News

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 capital of the land of a thousand hills, Rwanda. I am here for the annual World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF), and like millions of other people who have visited Kigali, I am in awe of the progressiveness of an African people who have chosen to rise from dust to glory. The streets are clean and flowers blossom along the roads; safe for your morning jog or an evening bicycle ride with provisions for both pedestrian and cycling lanes. On multiple corners sustainable buildings are coming up; some are already in existence. A city on the move towards the right direction. A direction of peaceful co-existence, a spirited art scene, an...

Practical Action announces collaboration to raise new finance for climate and water resilient cities in Africa

12Jul

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Events, Rwanda News

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 the coming 10-20 years. The Commonwealth’s 54 countries will account for half of all growth in cities by 2050. Cities already account for 70% of all global carbon emissions, and the majority are dealing with the effects of climate change. There is an urgent need to ensure that urbanization is sustainable, dramatically lowers carbon, meets the basic needs of all its residents, and offers opportunities for everyone to thrive. This is the challenge that the collaboration between Practical Action, WRI, WaterAid, and the Prince’s Foundation is seeking to address. At #CHOGM2022, we announced our commitment to working together on Climate and W...

How tracking methane helps fight climate change

9Jun

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Algeria News, Energy, Main, Nigeria News, Rwanda News

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 IPCC, “without increased and urgent mitigation in the coming years, leading to a sharp decline in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, global warming will surpass 1.5C in the following decades, leading to irreversible loss of the most fragile ecosystems, and crisis after crisis for the most vulnerable people and societies.” And yet they continue to increase. However, while much attention is paid to CO2, which accounts for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions, less is paid to a far more potent gas. Methane (20% of global emissions) is considered a “short-term climate forcer”, with a lifespan of about 12 years compared with CO2’s 300 to 1,00...

Data security and privacy laws develop across Africa

3May

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Ghana News, Kenya News, Madagascar News, Main, Mauritius News, Nigeria News, Rwanda News, South Africa News, Togo News, Uganda News, Zimbabwe News

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 in digitisation as a result of the pandemic, the broad implementation of such laws across the continent has never been more urgent. Countries including Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Togo, Uganda and Zimbabwe have been implementing new measures to protect and secure the personal information of their citizens. In Ghana, data protection is regulated under the Data Protection Act, 2012 (DPA) together with Article 18(2) of the 1992 Constitution, which provides citizens with a fundamental right to privacy. Enid Baaba Dadzie, Senior Associate at Kimathi & Partners in Ghana, says that because data protect...