# Zimbabwe

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

## In brief

Zimbabwe has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI policy (2025) as policy; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law. Regulators include Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services, POTRAZ. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Zimbabwe's Ministry of ICT, Postal and Courier Services approved a National AI Policy (2025) under the Smart Zimbabwe 2030 agenda, and the Cyber and Data Protection Act 2021 with POTRAZ as data-protection authority applies to AI processing personal data.

## Regulatory status

National AI policy (2025) 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 Policy (2025).

## Regulators

- Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services — AI policy lead — https://www.ictministry.gov.zw/
- POTRAZ — Telecoms regulator and data-protection authority — https://www.potraz.gov.zw/

## 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 ICT, Postal and Courier Services — Government of Zimbabwe — https://www.ictministry.gov.zw/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Zimbabwe National Artificial Intelligence Policy** — Policy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/zimbabwe-national-ai-policy-2025
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/zimbabwe-national-ai-policy-2025.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/zimbabwe
- **Official source**: https://www.ictministry.gov.zw/
- **Source document**: Ministry of ICT, Postal and Courier Services
- **Published by**: Government of Zimbabwe
- **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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