🇷🇼Rwanda

rwanda

Tools

npm package providing type-safe access to Rwanda's provinces, districts, sectors, cells and villages with TypeScript definitions out of the box. Covers the full administrative hierarchy down to village level.

Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda

AI

Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda is an automatic speech recognition model fine-tuned from OpenAI's Whisper-small on the Common Voice Kinyarwanda dataset, achieving about 24 percent word error rate. It transcribes Kinyarwanda audio into text for speech applications. It was built by Mbaza NLP, part of the Digital Umuganda voice-technology ecosystem in Rwanda.

Nyaruka phonenumbers

OSS

Go port of Google's libphonenumber, maintained by Nyaruka, the Kigali, Rwanda software company behind the RapidPro and TextIt messaging platforms. It parses, validates and formats phone numbers for any country and underpins messaging and fintech systems that route to African mobile networks. It is MIT licensed and heavily depended upon in the Go ecosystem.

Pindo Voice AI

Agents

Pindo Voice AI is a Kigali-based platform for building and deploying voice AI agents in African languages including Kinyarwanda, Kiswahili and Luganda. Its agents let customers complete banking tasks by voice, such as money transfers, loan applications and card management, and provide round-the-clock voice support tuned to African languages and dialects. It serves finance, health, agriculture and development organisations in East Africa on a pay-by-minute model.

Proto AICX

Agents

Proto is an AI customer-experience platform for emerging markets whose AICX assistants combine rule-based and generative AI to automate customer support, complaint intake and citizen engagement, with agent-to-agent handoff and takeover by human agents. It supports low-resource and local languages and is a WhatsApp Business and Meta partner, with a regional team in Kigali and national AI voice-agent deployments in Rwanda (Kinyarwanda). Clients include the National Bank of Rwanda and the Bank of Ghana.