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id: digitalfreezonezanzibar
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title: 📣 A Digital Free Zone in Zanzibar – And More!
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image_caption: A Digital Free Zone in Zanzibar – And More!
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description: The President of Zanzibar, Dr. Hussein Mwinyi, visited us this weekend to publicly share our collaborations.
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date: 2023-07-27
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tags: [partnership,community,technology,update]
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news-category: [foundation]
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imgPath: digitalfreezonezanzibar.png
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This past weekend, we were honored with a visit from Zanzibar's President Dr. Hussein Mwinyi at the African Regenerative Cities Summit.
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There, he formally and publicly expressed the government's commitment to the establishment of a digital free zone, a locally-owned Internet infrastructure, an incubator to support young local innovators – all in collaboration with ThreeFold – and their commitment to the ICT sector as a whole.
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Read [Zanzibar Seeks to Become a Digital FreeZone](https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/zanzibar/zanzibar-seeks-to-become-digital-freezone--4316150) (via The Citizen) and [Mwinyi Commits to Improvement of Digital Spaces](https://dailynews.co.tz/mwinyi-commits-to-improvement-of-digital-spaces/) (via Daily News Tanzania) for further details.
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*We'll be sharing more developments on this front in the community call next week and as progress unfolds.*
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