18/09/2024
Rwanda has the ambition to pioneer the implementation of a national governance of consent, in relation to all the cases when citizens can actively decide on the use of their personal data. This is a very timely topic, that is getting a lot of traction and attention, rightly so.
Having a standardized approach for the consent governance at the level of the country remains complex, due to the need of institutional alignment and technical integration efforts.
GovStack through the Consent Building Block and the corresponding open source components is accelerating the possibility of such projects at at national level.
I'm happy to have contributed to the facilitation of the Consent Governance in Rwanda workshop, together with Lal Chandran, co-founder of iGrant.io™ and key contributor to the GovStack Consent BB, and with Thomas Wiemann.
I'm confident that we will soon see progress, as the next steps are set, with a PoC being already in implmentation as result of the workshop.