Créé par la RISA avec le NISR, l'AIMS Rwanda et Cenfri, le Policy Navigator rwandais répond sur les politiques publiques à partir de documents officiels vérifiés, et a été distingué parmi 59 des quelque 400 candidatures aux prix AI for Good 2026 de l'UIT.
50
Professionals trained in the DSCBI first cohort
24
Government institutions represented in the DSCBI cohort
1 of 59 (from ~400 submissions)
Recognition among global submissions at ITU AI for Good 2026
Détails
Maturité
Pilote
Promoteur
Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA)
Période
2025-2026
Mots-clés
digital government, policy analysis, public administration
Contexte
Civil servants and citizens in Rwanda often struggle to locate the specific, current version of a policy, regulation or strategy among scattered government documents, slowing both compliance checks and public information requests. The Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA), working with the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR), the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences - Rwanda (AIMS Rwanda), Mastercard and Cenfri, built the 'GoR AI-Powered Policy Navigator'.
Objectifs
The tool uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to answer multilingual queries about policies, regulations and strategies, drawing responses exclusively from verified government sources, and includes a secure workspace and an automated policy-alignment checker against national frameworks.
Activités
The Policy Navigator was built during the first cohort of the Data Science Capacity Building Initiative (DSCBI), a programme that trained 50 professionals from 24 government institutions, and was one of the top three projects from that cohort.
Résultats
The project was one of 59 projects, from nearly 400 global submissions, recognised at the ITU AI for Good Global Summit's Innovate for Impact 2026 awards, in the Open-Source AI for Global Impact category.
Conclusions
This is external, competitive validation of the concept, but neither RISA's announcement nor the award materials publish usage volumes, response-accuracy figures or a comparison of search time before and after; the efficiency claim that the tool 'significantly reduces time required to search through policy documents' remains self-reported.
Mise en œuvre
Coût indicatif
Faible (< 50 k€)
Délai jusqu’aux résultats
Court (< 1 an)
Personnel et compétences
Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA), lead, National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR), African Institute for Mathematical Sciences - Rwanda (AIMS Rwanda), Mastercard, Cenfri
Conditions de réussite
Data Science Capacity Building Initiative (DSCBI) training 50 professionals from 24 institutions
RAG architecture restricted to verified government sources
Secure workspace and automated policy-alignment checker
Modes d’échec courants
No usage-volume, accuracy or before/after search-time figures published; the efficiency claim is self-reported
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National / regional programmesPhilanthropic / foundation funding
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