# Rwanda

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Rwanda
- **ISO code**: RW
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Africa / Eastern Africa

## In brief

Rwanda has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. Instruments on record: The National AI Policy (2023, policy, adopted). Rwanda's national AI policy sets out six policy areas and fourteen recommendations covering skills and literacy, infrastructure, data, responsible AI governance, public-sector adoption and ecosystem development.

## Overview

Rwanda's national AI policy sets out six policy areas and fourteen recommendations covering skills and literacy, infrastructure, data, responsible AI governance, public-sector adoption and ecosystem development.

## Regulatory status

Instruments on record: The National AI Policy (2023, policy, adopted). Each is linked to its official source; human verification pending.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: The National AI Policy.

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.

## Official sources

- The National AI Policy — Ministry of ICT and Innovation, Republic of Rwanda — https://www.minict.gov.rw/ai-policy

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **The National AI Policy** — Policy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/rwanda-the-national-ai-policy
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/rwanda-the-national-ai-policy.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/rwanda
- **Official source**: https://www.minict.gov.rw/ai-policy
- **Source document**: The National AI Policy
- **Published by**: Ministry of ICT and Innovation, Republic of Rwanda
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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