{"id":238588,"date":"2026-07-12T18:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/southern-africa-digital-inclusion-and-gender-equity-in-zimbabwe-opportunities-and-gaps\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:49:22","slug":"southern-africa-digital-inclusion-and-gender-equity-in-zimbabwe-opportunities-and-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/southern-africa-digital-inclusion-and-gender-equity-in-zimbabwe-opportunities-and-gaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Digital Inclusion and Gender Equity in Zimbabwe &#8211; Opportunities and Gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Evidence from the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1) highlights constraints within Zimbabwe&#8217;s National Statistical System, particularly at ZimStats, which faced shortages of human resources, limited technical capacity, inadequate infrastructure, and constrained financial resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s digital transformation agenda is underpinned by a policy framework that recognises the importance of inclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The National ICT Policy (2022-2027) promotes equal opportunities for all persons, including&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607100069.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence from the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1) highlights constraints within Zimbabwe&#8217;s National Statistical System, particularly at ZimStats, which faced shortages of human resources, limited technical capacity, inadequate infrastructure, and constrained financial resources. Zimbabwe&#8217;s digital transformation agenda is underpinned by a policy framework that recognises the importance of inclusion. The National ICT Policy (2022-2027) promotes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,9633,5996,10441,6029,14204,257,13281,254,7153,4686,421],"class_list":["post-238588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-digital","tag-equity","tag-gaps","tag-gender","tag-inclusion","tag-news","tag-opportunities","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}