Progress made through the completion of the national artificial intelligence (AI) policy framework as part of efforts to accelerate digital transformation in Zimbabwe.
Access to information
New office bearers for MISA
Following the MISA Zimbabwe elections, Maunganidze stepped down as the MISA Regional Council Chairperson. Accordingly, the Vice Chairperson, Jeremias Langa (MISA Mozambique Chairperson), assumes office as the new RGC Chairperson.
Standing together in the fight against breast cancer
This year’s theme, No one should face breast cancer alone, speaks to the support and solidarity that women, including female journalists, need in fighting and surviving breast cancer.
MISA Regional Chairperson`s opening remarks at the 2024 Spaces of Solidarity
We need to devise robust pushback strategies and responses in view of the rapidly shrinking civic space we have witnessed over the past few years. Stringent NGO laws have been enacted across the region, which require our collective attention and strategic responses to halt the shrinking and erosion of democratic civic space.
Submissions to the All Africa Judges and Jurists Summit, Nairobi, Kenya, 18 September 2024
In a historic development, the AJJF brought judges and jurists from all continental regions to Nairobi, Kenya, from September 17th to 19th, 2014, as a holistic approach to strengthening the judiciary in an ever-evolving environment.
New era of improved connectivity and access to information as Starlink deploys in Zimbabwe
MISA Zimbabwe hopes that this development will provide internet access to rural and remote communities that conventional internet service providers have traditionally marginalised.
Open Letter to the AU Heads of State and Government on the Endorsed Continental AI Strategy and African Digital Compact
We urge the AUC Chairperson, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, to stress the crucial importance of member states implementing the AUC Data Policy Framework. Data is
central to achieving the vision of the Digital Compact and should be governed in a manner that protects Africans’ fundamental rights and freedoms.
Condolence message on the passing on of journalist Lucy Yasini
A longstanding member of MISA Zimbabwe, Yasini was also a leader in her own right and once served as a member of the organisation’s Harare Advocacy Committee in defence of media freedom and citizens’ right to access information.
Zimbabwe experiences internet degradation due to infrastructure issues
An Internet Service Provider (ISP) explained that the degradation of the internet was due to a fault on an undersea fibre optic cable in South Africa that is the backbone of internet connection to Zimbabwe.
THE 2nd FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION FORUM Address by MISA Regional Director – Dr Tabani Moyo
Madam Chairperson and distinguished guests, we have never been so well placed as we are today to take decisive forward steps towards creating a people-centred society, especially one that places the generally marginalised at the centre.