The second Kigali Audio-Visual Forum ended on a high note today as the industry’s stakeholders agreed to work together to enable the budding sector to grow faster. The two-day forum attracted over 500 content creators, actors, distributors, film bodies, policy makers, regulators and investors from Africa, Europe and the United States. Held ... Read More

Over 500 players from the local, regional and global film industry have convened in Kigali for the second Kigali Audio-Visual Forum. Held under the theme, ‘Tapping into the potential of Africa’s creative industries’, the two-day forum is a home grown solution that aims to bring tangible and measurable solutions that align ... Read More

Kigali, 26th November, 2019: RDB (the Rwanda Development Board) today organized a panel discussion on Intellectual Property and Financing for people employed in the audiovisual sector. The event was a prelude to the second Kigali Audio-Visual Forum that starts tomorrow, 27th November to Thursday, 28th November 2019 at the Kigali Serena Hotel. The ... Read More

RDB (Rwanda Development Board) supported 43 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to showcase their made in Rwanda products at the on-going Made in Rwanda Expo happening in Gikondo expo grounds in Kigali. The move is in line with RDB’s Domestic Market Recapturing Strategy that seeks to promote SMEs to access different ... Read More

In a bid to recognize the private sector’s essential role in growing Rwanda’s economy, Rwanda Development Board (RDB) will on 31st January 2020 celebrate the ‘RDB Business Excellence Awards 2019’, where outstanding individuals and private companies that excelled in 2019 will be recognized. The seventh edition of the RDB Business Excellence ... Read More

For the second year running, Rwanda is set to host the regional Kigali Audio-Visual Forum that will bring together an estimated 500 stakeholders from the global film industry to discuss trends in the sector and available business opportunities. The event, which will take place from the 27th to 28th of this ... Read More

In a bid to stop the illegal trade of Grey Crowned Cranes and reverse their shocking decline in numbers which could lead to their extinction, RDB in collaboration with the Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association have issued a final call to those still poaching, selling and keeping Grey Crowned Cranes to stop by end ... Read More

RDB (Rwanda Development Board) yesterday held a stakeholder workshop to present findings from a study that was carried out to analyze the rate of innovation in the production process of SME's (Small and Medium Enterprises) and the status of protection of different intellectual property (IP) assets. The Study on Technology and Intellectual Property Registration ... Read More

Rwanda has invited the world to Kigali for the 2020 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) and shared the country’s rich culture with hundreds of thousands of people at the annual Lord Mayor’s Show in London. The Lord Mayor’s Show is 804 years old and one of the world’s largest ... Read More