Zimbabwe Speeding Up Digitisation Agenda

Minister Mutsvangwa said the Second Republic was making investments in the country’s technological capabilities. - Picture: @InfoMinZW

Wallace Ruzvidzo in Bulawayo

Government is expediting the country’s digitisation agenda to ensure all 48 transmitters are digitised as soon as possible, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Service Minister, Senator Monica Mutsvangwa has said. Currently the country has 18 transmitters that have been digitised. Speaking at the Ministry’s Media Indaba on the sidelines of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) yesterday, Minister Mutsvangwa said the Second Republic was making investments in the country’s technological capabilities. “Government is ceased with the fact that we need to move fast in term of digitalising, out of the 48 transmitters we have only digitalised 18 and we do not want to lose our young generation. “The youth of today have changed the way they consume information and we want our youth to be able to access content and digitalisation is the way to go. “If we continue to leave our files in analogue we lose out on the history of the country because we want our young children to be able to read where we came from and that way we will be able to chart together our way forward, its important,” she said. ReadMore