Regional Hub for Big Data in Africa
in Support of the United Nations Global Platform
Kigali, Rwanda
Collaboration
In addition to the United Nations and UNECA, NISR is collaborating with local universities and both public and private institutions in Rwanda.
Privacy
Rwanda is in the process of putting in place its Data Protection Law that will improve the accessing, sharing, analysis and use of big data without breaching the privacy of individuals
About
In May 2019, the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) inaugurated its brand new Training Centre that is designed to be a convenient environment for data access and capacity building. It will also host the NISR Data Science Campus that will be the hub of big data analytics and their applications. The big data hub will be an environment for capacity development activities in new areas of data analysis such as data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other big data related techniques, not only in Rwanda, but also in the region.
Given the relevance of the big data hub to Rwanda and Africa, NISR realizes that partnerships and collaboration with other institutions and organizations is needed to achieve its mission. It is in this context that, in March 2020, Rwanda signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United Nations to operationalize this hub which is expected to start before the end of 2020. Furthermore, the MoU agreed that Rwanda would host the only big data regional hub for Africa.
Location:
Kigali, Rwanda
Organizations:
- National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR)
- Unied Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN ECA)
- UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)