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Rwanda: Rwanda Drone Engineers Help Zipline Find Foothold in U.S.
New Times, 2 June 2020
Drone technology has been gaining prominence over the years and these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been hovering over the skies in many countries, including Rwanda where… Read more »
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Rwanda: Govt to Scale Up Interventions to Accelerate Technology, Innovation
New Times, 15 May 2020
The Government has set out a series of actions and plans that it will implement to accelerate technology and innovation in the country amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic, or… Read more »
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Rwanda: Rwanda Expands Drone Use to Deliver Medicine
East African, 4 May 2020
Rwanda was among the few countries in Africa to use drones to deliver life-saving blood plasma to far-flung rural areas. Read more »
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Rwanda: Rwanda Uses Drones to Deliver Cancer Drugs to Patients
New Times, 26 April 2020
The lockdown measures to contain the spread of the new coronavirus have complicated many activities including access to certain medical services, including cancer treatment. Read more »
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Rwanda: Rwanda Deploys Drones to Raise COVID-19 Awareness in Communities
New Times, 12 April 2020
Rwanda National Police (RNP) on Sunday, April 12 announced the usage of drones to further raise awareness of the coronavirus pandemic in local communities. Read more »
Rwandan Engineers Jet Off to Train Americans on Drone Technology
Zipline has sent flight operators from Rwanda to the United States to train their American counterparts after the company received a go-ahead from the government to deliver supplies. The company has its global training centre in Rwanda where a team of four certified locals have been training people from Ghana, the U.S. and other countries in flight and fulfilment operations. In 2016, the drone logistics company started delivering blood in Rwanda in what was, at the time, the first national drone delivery system.
Participants at the Africa Drone Forum inspect one of the drones by Zipline at an exhibition (file photo).
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President Paul Kagame has said that as Rwanda and African countries move to adopt the use of drone technology, there should be considerations to design and manufacture Unmanned ... Read more »
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The government will host a forum in February, 2020, whose aim it will be to demonstrate how drones can be used for everything, from cargo delivery to emergency response throughout ... Read more »
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Drone and manual spraying initiatives will supplement the measures taken to fight the disease - this include the distribution of bed nets, malaria case management in communities ... Read more »
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The new drone model, which Zipline Inc, a California-based robotics firm says has a top speed of about 128km per hour, is set to improve the efficiency of local deliveries and help ... Read more »
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The Index Awards - often referred to as the Nobel Prize for Design - are considered the most prestigious awards in the field of design, with previous winners including icons such ... Read more »
