# Zambia

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Zambia
- **ISO code**: ZM
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Africa / Southern Africa

## In brief

Zambia has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI strategy (2024) as policy; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law. Regulators include Ministry of Technology and Science. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Zambia's Ministry of Technology and Science launched a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (2024) alongside the Data Protection Act 2021 and the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, with priorities on public services, agriculture, health, skills and ethics.

## Regulatory status

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

## What is binding and what is guidance

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

## Regulators

- Ministry of Technology and Science — AI strategy lead — https://www.mots.gov.zm/

## How to use this profile

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

## Official sources

- Ministry of Technology and Science — Government of Zambia — https://www.mots.gov.zm/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Zambia National Artificial Intelligence Strategy** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/zambia-national-ai-strategy-2024
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/zambia-national-ai-strategy-2024.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/zambia
- **Official source**: https://www.mots.gov.zm/
- **Source document**: Ministry of Technology and Science
- **Published by**: Government of Zambia
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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