- agency
- Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (ministerial order); piloted by Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA)
- amount
- Not specified (design-contest winners negotiate contracts; runners-up receive modest prizes). RISA pilots from 2024 backed an AI-powered procurement platform and a digital research portfolio system built by a local startup.
- country
- Rwanda
- deadline or recurrence
- Ongoing pilots since 2024; scaling across ministries.
- eligibility
- Local startups/innovators submitting concepts or prototypes via two pathways: Design Contests and Pre-Commercial Procurement; startups retain IP rights while government gains usage permissions.