Tinaye Agere
Online Reporter
Zimbabweans have been urged to take advantage of Starlink’s enhancement of connectivity to embrace Artificial Intelligence (AI) to heighten efficiency in key economic sectors.
Speaking during the Open Data Africa Summit at the Hub Unconference in Harare recently, Information Communication and Technology Parliamentary Portfolio Committee member Darlington Chigumbu, who is also the Budiriro South legislator, called for the crafting of the legal framework to aid application of AI.
Further, he said, there was need for setting up an AI Advisory Committee ahead of the legal framework.
“Now we need an AI advisory committee to streamline or give us a framework to spell out what we need AI for as a country and also guide us on how best to utilise AI for national development,” he said.
He said AI has the potential to facilitate development in various sectors and allow for economic growth across the country.
“Most developed countries are already on to AI, it is something that we, as Zimbabweans, need to embrace,” he said.
AI, he said, could be used to predict new environmental patterns and tackle climate change, hence the need to craft a policy document and aid its application.
Bongani Ndlovu