{"id":3462,"date":"2026-04-13T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:14:42","slug":"interoperability-essential-for-digital-inclusion-chinyama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=3462","title":{"rendered":"INTEROPERABILITY ESSENTIAL FOR DIGITAL INCLUSION \u2013 CHINYAMA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">SMART Zambia National Coordinator Percy Chinyama says interoperability is essential for ensuring that digital inclusion in Zambia and across the globe is properly addressed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Mr Chinyama notes that without common standards, different systems would not communicate effectively, leaving some citizens behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He said this after the official opening of the World Internet Conference (WIC), Asia-Pacific Summit in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Mr Chinyama said Zambia can draw various lessons from the ongoing summit among them the need to build trust with digital systems, stating that security is an important foundational element of any digitisation effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u200eMr Chinyama has appreciated the conference which has brought together over 1,000 delegates from Asia, the Pacific Region and Africa to share practical ideas on digital advancements.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The two-day conference, which runs from 13 to 14th April, 2026, is being held under the theme \u201cIntegration of AI and Digital Technologies Shaping the Future, Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace.\u201d   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMART Zambia National Coordinator Percy Chinyama says interoperability is essential for ensuring that digital inclusion in Zambia and across the globe is properly addressed.&nbsp; Mr Chinyama notes that without common standards, different systems would not communicate effectively, leaving some citizens behind. He said this after the official opening of the World Internet Conference (WIC), Asia-Pacific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}