Industry Findings: Zimbabwe’s policy focus on simplifying investment and improving digital regulation reduces friction for small-scale data and compute projects; government e-regulation platforms and investment facilitation measures introduced in Sep-2025 are modest but meaningful steps that can improve investor confidence for niche compute projects and local integrator activity.
Industry Progression: UNCTAD-supported launch of a new digital investment platform in Zimbabwe (reported Sep-2025) simplifies investment procedures and can make small compute and assembly projects more bankable; while macro constraints remain, this change modestly improves the commercial case for pilot data-centre and integrator projects that require lower CAPEX profiles.
Industry Player Insights: Among the many providers in this market, a few include Econet, Liquid Telecom, TelOne, and local system integrators. Improved investment processes and local initiatives (2025) make it easier for local integrators and telcos to partner with regional vendors on low-scale accelerator and edge projects, creating initial procurement windows for validated modules and pilot deployments.