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By all accounts, Rwanda’s Irembo digital platform has been an unqualified success. Citizens can access over 200 state services, and counting, all without visiting a government office. Foreigners can also make use of a more limited selection.

Irembo, or “gateway” in Kinyarwanda, was launched in 2015, and as Landry Chedjou, the infrastructure lead for the service tells me: “Our purpose is very simple: we need to improve people’s lives [through] convenience and simplicity by making the country’s services digital.” He says its chief mandate is to digitise all the public services in Rwanda, and the agency is deploying a number of services from software company Nutanix.