National Institute of Statistics Rwanda

As a follow up on trainings provided to journalists and winners of infographic competition on data vizualization, NISR and partners launched a yearly data journalism award in December 2017. The mission of this award is to use journalists in data dissemination by promoting excellence and creativity in the reporting of statistics-based stories to the Rwandan public in this data revolution era when journalistic reportage requires practices that include statistical analyses, interpretations and visualization to tell complex and sensitive stories in simple and convincing way.

The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) organised a second Big Data and Analytics Technical Committee meeting on 20^th December 2017 with PhD students in Data Science at University of Rwanda, College of Business and Economy.

Four months after the cabinet approved the Data revolution policy, the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) initiated discussions with stakeholders to discuss how this policy will be implemented to boost the use of other sources that may generate statistics for evidence based decision making.

Mr. Ivan MURENZI, Deputy Director General (in the middle), and Kenny Osborne, Deputy Head of DFID-Rwanda (on the left hand side) discussing the partnership

In September 2017, a Delegation from UK Office for National Statistics (UK-ONS) had a second visit to the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) to discuss with various stakeholders on the journey of developing and strengthening data revolution and big data in Rwanda and how the two National statistics Offices can collaborate around this new area, not only in Rwanda, but also globally.

Article  by Yumi Matsuda, UNICEF Rwanda Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation; Veronica Houser, UNICEF Rwanda Communications Consultant; Jean-Claude Nyirimanzi, NISR Team Leader, Research, Publication and Documentation; Ruben Muhayiteto, NISR Data Portals Management Officer, 17 July 2017

JOSIAH’S STORY

Article  by Yumi Matsuda, UNICEF Rwanda Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation; Veronica Houser, UNICEF Rwanda Communications Consultant; Jean-Claude Nyirimanzi, NISR Team Leader, Research, Publication and Documentation; Ruben Muhayiteto, NISR Data Portals Management Officer, 17 July 2017

“When I graduated from university, this laptop was my only possession,” Kamugisha said, displaying it proudly. Kamugisha Marius, a young Rwandan entrepreneur, received the laptop when he won the prestigious Infographics Competition.