AI regulation in Zambia

What is the current regulatory status?

National AI strategy (2024) as policy; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law.

Binding rules versus guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI Strategy (2024).

Key policy instruments

Instruments at a glance

Native-language names are shown where the record carries one; a blank means the source is in English or the name is not yet recorded.

Latest changes

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Applicable sectors, use cases and obligation areas

Use cases

AI in public services

Sectors

Cross-sector / all sectors

Obligation areas

How to use this information

1. Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
2. Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
3. Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.
4. Use the African Union Continental AI Strategy (2024) as the regional reference where a national instrument is missing.

Official government and regulator sources

1. Ministry of Technology and Science
   Government of Zambia · Tier 1 source

Cite this record

AIPolicyTracker (2026). “AI regulation in Zambia”. https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/zambia (accessed 27 October 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.

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