# Zambia National Artificial Intelligence Strategy

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Zambia
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Government of Zambia (Ministry of Technology and Science)

## In brief

National AI Strategy (2024) is a non-binding national strategy of Zambia, issued by the Government of Zambia (Ministry of Technology and Science). Its current status is adopted. Government programme; no obligations on private organisations. The strategy sets objectives on AI skills and research, adoption in public services, agriculture, health and mining, data infrastructure and responsible-AI governance.

## Summary

The strategy sets objectives on AI skills and research, adoption in public services, agriculture, health and mining, data infrastructure and responsible-AI governance.

## Scope

Government programme; no obligations on private organisations.

## Notes on dates

Adoption date not established from the official source and left empty rather than estimated; the year in the title or summary is the best available indication. Reviewer to add the exact date with a source reference.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0239 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0239; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/zambia-national-ai-strategy-2024
- **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/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Zambia National Artificial Intelligence Strategy" [AIPT-POL-0239, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0239 (accessed 27 October 2026).

> This record is a structured summary with a link to the official text. It is not legal advice. Open the official source before relying on any date or duty. How current each record type must be is published at https://aipolicytracker.org/verification; what a record must carry at all is published at https://aipolicytracker.org/coverage.