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National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024-2026
Record ZM-01
- Issued by
- Ministry of Technology and Science
- Jurisdiction
- Zambia
- Level · region
- National · Sub-Saharan Africa
- Published / adopted
- 2024-11-21
- Language
- English
Summary
National AI strategy of the Ministry of Technology and Science, developed with support from the Tony Blair Institute and Finland and launched in Lusaka on 21 November 2024. Its principles include a human-centric approach, transparency and explainability, accountability, fairness and non-discrimination, data privacy and security, inclusivity and sustainability, aligned with the AU Continental AI Strategy, UNESCO's Recommendation and the OECD AI Principles. Governance measures include a National AI Council, sectoral technical working groups, national AI ethics guidelines, extending the regulator ZICTA's mandate to AI regulation and ethical compliance, regulatory sandboxes and risk management.
Safety topics
accountability & liabilityinternational cooperationtransparency & labellingpublic-sector use
Scope
Borderline scope Mainly a strategy for AI skills, infrastructure, research and sectoral adoption; included as Zambia's national AI strategy, whose governance measures include a National AI Council, AI ethics guidelines, extending the regulator ZICTA's mandate to AI and risk management.
Status notes
The cover reads 'National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024-2026' and the acknowledgement supports implementation of the 'National AI Strategy 2024 - 2026', but the running page header reads '2025 - 2027'. The ministry's release dated 21 November 2024 (published 25 November 2024) reports the launch that day in Lusaka by the Minister of Technology and Science, Felix Mutati. The foreword also commits to a National AI Taskforce and a Centre of Excellence hosting industry AI working groups and innovation labs, and to guardrails for the safe use of AI.
Local copy
Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-18 04:08:13 UTC
Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/ZM-01/2026-10-18/official.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-18 03:28:22 UTC
SHA-256 d3ee7f96a937fc9d312aa6ef4fc0d9225c484c14c27a5417050ee8e87f519963
Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/ZM-01/2026-10-18/secondary.html
Retrieved 2026-10-18 03:28:27 UTC
SHA-256 af01f6fdf89150e6ef2e11455a89a7a66fae0d5e7a19932f54b9bd8d6a82faca
Verification
BAnother official source, such as an announcement by the issuer, confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · alternative-official-url-fetched
Recheck of 18 Oct 2026. Stored: the strategy PDF (60 pages) and the ministry's launch release, both from mots.gov.zm and both stored on 18 Oct 2026 (the attempts of 11, 16 and 17 Oct 2026 failed on the site's TLS certificate). The PDF confirms the title, the issuing ministry, the partners, the principles and the governance measures; the release confirms the launch in Lusaka on 21 November 2024. The strategy period is stated inconsistently in the document itself (2024-2026 on the cover and in the acknowledgement, 2025-2027 in the page header). The ministry's July 2024 pre-announcement of a launch on Independence Day and the OECD.AI listing under 2025-2027 are not in any stored source and were dropped from notes, as was the remark on the PDF's upload date and its copy on OECD.AI.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 8 field(s) supported.
History
- 2026-10-18verification.level: A → B — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-18scope_note: – → Mainly a strategy for AI skills, infrastructure, research and sectoral adoption; — added: a strategy whose main content is skills, infrastructure, research and adoption, with a governance and ethics component, in line with the scope notes of comparable national strategies (CA-07, CO-01, NO-01)2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-18notes: The cover reads 'National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024-2026' and the fo → The cover reads 'National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024-2026' and the ac — rewritten: the July 2024 pre-announcement, the OECD.AI listing and the upload and copy remarks rest on no stored source and were dropped; the 2024-2026 wording is in the acknowledgement, not the foreword as published; the National AI Taskforce, the Centre of Excellence and the safe-use guardrails from the foreword added2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-18summary: Zambia's first national AI strategy, developed with support from Finland and the → National AI strategy of the Ministry of Technology and Science, developed with s — rewritten from the stored text: 'Zambia's first national AI strategy' is not stated in either stored source and was dropped; the principles listed as the strategy lists them (5.2); 'risk management' kept (7.8); support from the Tony Blair Institute and Finland from the acknowledgement2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
Citation
Ministry of Technology and Science. National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024-2026. 2024-11-21. https://www.mots.gov.zm/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Zambia-Ai-Strategy-Book-option-2.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level B). Local copy archive/ZM-01/2026-10-18/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-18 03:28:22 UTC, SHA-256 d3ee7f96a937fc9d312aa6ef4fc0d9225c484c14c27a5417050ee8e87f519963. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record ZM-01.
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