Smart City Masterplan provides a framework to guide Rwandan cities and towns in their efforts to harness ICTs to provide a higher quality of life to their citizens, businesses and visitors. The document lays out a vision for cities of the future that embed technology and data across city functions to make them more efficient, competitive and innovative.

This Smart City Masterplan provides a framework to help Rwandan towns and cities manage the transition of the 21st century and help ensure the future prosperity of all Rwandans. It is intended as a guide to help Mayors and urban managers go through the process to develop their own smart city strategies and masterplans.

The Masterplan was developed in 2017, based on extensive discussions, meetings and workshops with
a variety of urban and ICT stakeholders in Rwanda, including ministries, regulatory bodies, local authorities, academia, civil society and the private sector. The development was aligned with the Smart Africa Alliance Smart Sustainable Cities Blueprint for Africa..

The Rwandan Smart City Masterplan is part of a wider vision for Africa, harnessing the ongoing twin processes of digital transformation and
rapid urbanisation across the continent to make African cities more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Its starting point is that digital tech-
nologies, civic participation and innovation can enhance urbanisation processes to make urban areas better for citizens and businesses.

This Masterplan, the first of its sort in Africa, attempts to create a comprehensive smart city framework based on three smart city pillars, nine strategic building blocks and 27 initiatives. The Plan recommends the implementation of technology solutions, data platforms, internet of things and smart grids, but also the further development of processes in urban planning, governance and finance. It also makes recommendations related to education, digital literacy, innovation and business development.

The Masterplan is not a “one-size-fits-all” plan, but calls for evaluation, prioritisation and fine tuning to ensure that it meets the dynamic and
changing nature of Rwandan towns and cities. The recommendations found in this document, along with the Smart Africa Alliance’s Smart and
Sustainable Blueprint for Africa, can be used to provide guidance for future national and local smart city master plans throughout the continent.

This document is not intended as a rigid and unalterable document, but as a dynamic plan- ever changing and adapting based on the results of each pilot project, one city at a time, and as Rwandan and African cities develop and evaluate their own smart city masterplans. The initiatives that have been recommended will be fine-tuned and changed as evaluations are done, new datasets are established and technology develops. The best way to stay smart is to learn and adjust to the times based on the needs of present and future generation

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