Chakwera off to Zimbabwe for 6th Africa Transform Summit

The State President, Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has this morning left the country for Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe to attend the 6th Africa Transform Summit.
The Summit ((TAS2023) starts today on 26th April, 2023 and will end on 28th April, 2023.
The ministry of foreign affairs on Tuesday in its press release said Chakwera is attending the meeting in pursuit of ways to leverage the revolution to support Malawi’s own development and address obstacles.
Zimbabwe was selected against bids from the other 36 members of the Smart Africa Alliance.
The Transform Africa Summit is the leading Africa tech and digital event organised by Smart Africa which gathers over 5000 delegates from more than 100 countries to engage on the digital transformation of the continent across multiple sectors.
Heads of States, who constitute Smart Africa’s board, Ministers, International Industry leaders and key players in the ICT will attend the 3 day event aimed at making core decisions for Africa’s socio economic development through ICT.
Connect, Transform and Innovate is the theme of this edition where the focus will be on regulation and policy, digital infrastructure financing, capacity building and skills development and digital continental trade among other key aspects.
“The Transform Africa Summit will be held outside Rwanda for the first time and we are pleased to have our active member country Zimbabwe hosting us in the city of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.
“The TAS 2023 will once again underline the commitment of African Governments towards accelerating Africa’s digital agenda. We are welcoming all digital players from public and private sector on the continent in April in Zimbabwe. 2023 is a landmark year for Africa’s digital transformation”, said Mr. Lacina Koné, Director General and CEO of Smart Africa.
The summit will be open for public participation in exhibitions and multiple discussion panels and roundtables.
His Excellency President, Emmerson Mngangagwa, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, will open the summit and will also welcome other Heads of State including H.E. President Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda the Chairman of the Smart Africa Board who will convene a Board meeting at the summit.
His Excellency, Dr Chakwera is among the speakers at the Summit.
Geared towards connecting, innovating and transforming the continent into a knowledge economy thereby driving global competitiveness and job creation, Transform Africa Summit’s aim is to enable Member States to become more competitive, agile, open and innovative smart economies with the most favourable business climates that attracts large-scale investments, reward entrepreneurship and enable fast growth and exports, leveraging ICT innovations to transform African nations into smart societies.
The very first edition of Transform Africa Summit held in Kigali, Rwanda on 28th-31st October 2013 culminated in the adoption of the Smart Africa Manifesto document that aims to put ICT at the centre of National Socio-economic development agenda of member countries; improve access to ICT especially Broadband; to improve accountability, efficiency and openness through ICT promoting the introduction of advanced technologies in telecommunication; to put Private Sector first; and to leverage ICT to promote sustainable development.