Category: News
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The Myths About Rwanda’s Youth
I have only been back in Rwanda for six months after almost six years of being one of the world’s weirdest nomad. Of course with social media, we tends to have very inaccurate images of our mamaland. I have heard the best and the worst about Rwanda’s youth but I really couldn’t wait to just…
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Rwanda Is Building Resilient and Sustainable Transport Systems
KIGALI, Rwanda, May 4 2022 – Over the last decade, Rwanda has invested in building efficient and resilient transport systems. Guided by the country’s Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy (GGCRS), the Government of Rwanda has carried out numerous initiatives to promote sustainable mobility and the green economy at large. Road transport accounts for 13%…
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Rwanda Starts Phasing Out Dangerous Refrigerators
The Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP) and the Ministry of Environment, in partnership with the Rwanda Environment Management Authority, UN Environment, UNDP and GIZ, have convened the Africa Cooling Efficiency Conference in Kigali. The one-day event held today March 22 brought together approximately 50 cooling and energy efficiency stakeholders, decision makers and experts. The conference…
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Launch of access to information video campaign and toll-free phone hotline in Rwanda
Sobanukirwa was launched to help people in Rwanda get access to information by allowing anyone to post requests for free via a website and to receive email alerts once information is released. But as our team have carried out training sessions for citizens, government officers, NGOs, civil society groups and journalists across the country, we’ve found that…
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A call for proactive publishing by organisations in Rwanda
A year ago today, hundreds of public and private organisations in Rwanda should have proactively published a large amount of information online about how they are funded, who they employ, who subsidises their activities and how people can contact them to request more information. But very few have done so. The proactive publication of this information…
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Learn more about Rwanda’s access to information law
Our team set up the Sobanukirwa website to help people to quickly and easily take advantage of the rights guaranteed to them under Rwanda’s access to information law. But what are those rights, what does the access to information law say and where can you read the law for yourself if you want to find…
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Access to information, open data and data journalism in Rwanda
For the last two days, members of Team Sobanukirwa have been in Gisenyi talking about access to information, open data and data journalism at an event organised by Rwanda’s National Institute of Statistics. The event was a great chance to share information and advice with journalists, statisticians, designers and civil servants from a wide range…
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Three months of Sobanukirwa: some success but more work to do
Three months ago today, we officially launched Sobanukirwa.rw, the first access to information website in Rwanda. Sobanukirwa helps Rwandan citizens to easily make use of the country’s access to information law which was passed in 2013. The website is free to use and available in English, Kinyarwanda or French. Since our launch, 29 information requests have been…
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Ministry of Health location data for Rwanda reused on Healthsites.io
Team Sobanukirwa are very pleased to see the first example of data being reused after being requested through our new access to information website in Rwanda. In January, researcher Mark Herringer used sobanukirwa.rw to request health care location data for every hospital, health post and rural healthcare clinic in Rwanda from the Ministry of Health. With help…
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Funding from the Indigo Trust
Team Sobanukirwa are very pleased to announce that we have secured funding from the Indigo Trust. This funding will help our team to continue our work to spread awareness of access to information in Rwanda over the next year through holding public training sessions and setting up an SMS system for citizens to use to…