{"id":120024,"date":"2026-02-18T20:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/rwanda-signs-mou-with-us-ai-company-anthropic"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:01:51","slug":"rwanda-signs-mou-with-us-ai-company-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/rwanda-signs-mou-with-us-ai-company-anthropic","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Signs MoU with US AI Company Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Rwanda and Anthropic, an American artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, signed a three-year memorandum of understanding on Tuesday to bring AI technology to Kigali\u2019s education, health and public sector systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This partnership with Anthropic is an important milestone in Rwanda&#8217;s AI journey. Our goal is to continue to design and deploy AI solutions that can be applied at a national level to strengthen education, advance health outcomes, and enhance governance with an emphasis on our context,&#8221; said Paula Ingabire, Rwanda&#8217;s information and communications technology and innovation minister.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement represents Anthropic&#8217;s first formalized multi-sector partnership through a government MoU on the African continent, building on an education partnership announced in November 2025, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration spans three areas: supporting the Health Ministry&#8217;s national goals including eliminating cervical cancer and reducing malaria and maternal mortality; providing government developer teams with Claude \u2013 the company\u2019s large language model &#8211; and Claude Code access along with training and API credits; and deepening education partnerships across Rwanda and the region.<\/p>\n<p>The memorandum codified the fall education agreement that included 2,000 Claude Pro licenses for educators, AI literacy training for public servants and deployment of a Claude-powered learning companion across eight African countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Technology is only as valuable as its reach. We&#8217;re investing in training, technical support, and capacity building to expand access so that AI can be used safely and independently by teachers, health workers, and public servants throughout Rwanda,&#8221; said Elizabeth Kelly, head of Beneficial Deployments at Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. Rwanda and Anthropic, an American artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, signed a three-year memorandum of understanding on Tuesday to bring AI technology to Kigali\u2019s education, health and public sector systems. &#8220;This partnership with Anthropic is an important milestone in Rwanda&#8217;s AI journey. 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