Before Amazon or Google ever delivered packages by drone in North America, Rwanda was using drones to save peoples’ lives by delivering urgently needed blood and medicines to hospitals around the country. And being the earliest adopter, Rwanda led the way in charting flexible approaches to safely controlling drone traffic at a time when regulatory hurdles in the west had stalled commercial use of drones.
The Rwandan government partnered with Zipline, an American startup company, to launch the world’s first commercial drone delivery service in December 2016. “The reality is,” says Zipline co-founder Keller Rinaudo, “moms die in every country in the world for [lack of blood]. Rwanda was just the first country to do something about it.”
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