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📅 Published: August 19, 2025

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The three-day summit, themed “Connect, Transform, and Innovate,” will focus on regulation and policy, digital infrastructure financing, capacity building and skills development, and digital continental trade, among other important topics.

In an address to journalists yesterday, ICT Minister Jenfan Muswere stated that the country is delighted to welcome the Smart Africa Alliance family to the country’s premier resort town of Victoria Falls and that as a member of Smart Africa, they are committed to ensuring that technology can change the livelihoods of citizens and the continent at large. “As a member of Smart Africa, we are committed to ensuring that technology can change the lives of our citizens here in Zimbabwe and across the continent.

We are cognizant that this cannot be done alone.

Therefore we are extremely pleased to welcome the Smart Africa Alliance family to Zimbabwe’s prime resort town of Victoria Falls. “This is the first time and 6th edition of the Transform Africa Summit to be held outside Rwanda so as to harness its full potential on the African Continent.

We are proud to host the delegates to the summit in Victoria Falls between 26th to 28th April 2023 and this underlines our deep commitment to Africa’s development through ICTs,” Muswere said.

The summit will be open to the public for participation in exhibitions as well as over 50 different discussion panels and roundtables.

During the three-day ICT jamboree, His Excellency Cde.

Emmerson Dambudzo Mngangagwa, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, will officially open the Summit and welcome other Heads of State, including H.

President Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda and Chairman of the Smart Africa Board.

He also stated that Senegal’s President Macky Sall and Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera are expected to attend the Summit.

The summit will also feature key leaders from international organisations such as Madam Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union, H.

Wamkele Keabetswe Mene, Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area, and Deemah AlYahya, Secretary General of the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO). 🔗

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