Kigali Innovation City (KIC) is a technology cluster planned for

Kigali Kigali () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali has been Rwa ...

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. The Government of Rwanda hopes to attract both domestic and foreign universities,

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and

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firms, and have commercial and retail real estate. It is intended to be built on 70 hectares of land in Kigali's Special Economic Zone in

Gasabo District Gasabo is a district, (''akarere'') in Kigali city, the capital of Rwanda. The headquarter of Gasabo is located in Remera Sector. The district also includes large areas of the city itself, including Kacyiru, Kimironko, Remera, Nyarutarama and Ki ...

. Kigali Innovation City is part of the

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's Vision 2020 program and a

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between the Government and

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. Africa50, an infrastructure investment platform founded by the

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(AfDB) and African states, is a co-sponsor and partner that will help develop and finance the project. Kigali Innovation City has been compared to the planned

Konza Technology City Konza Technopolis, previously called Konza Technology City, is a large technology hub planned by the government of Kenya to be built 64 km south of Nairobi on the way to the port city of Mombasa. It is marketed as a key driver of Kenya's nat ...

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, announced in 2008, and a planned technology cluster in

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, announced in 2013.

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