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By Ross Moyo
NEW YORK – Addressing delegates today during the United Nations General Assembly meeting, President Mnangagwa has said the right to development must be appropriately guided in a technology-driven era.
Speaking in New York, the President challenged the world to use AI to narrow inequalities, not deepen them.
*”Further, in this technology-driven era, the right to development must now be appropriately guided. Leveraging artificial intelligence, digitalisation and the energy transition to narrow inequalities, and not deepen them, is an area deserving our attention.”*
He cautioned developing countries to be more responsible to humanity in their quest towards adoption.
*”Developing countries have a responsibility to humanity to actively help create, govern and benefit from new and emerging technologies,”* he said.
The President said Zimbabwe has made progress towards entrenching development that ensures dignity of ordinary people, beginning with household and national food security.
This comes as President Mnangagwa had earlier told world leaders during the high-level meeting to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development at the United Nations Headquarters in New York yesterday, that development acquires its fullest meaning when every person and nation has a genuine opportunity to shape their course and share the benefits.
In that address, President Mnangagwa declared that development especially in science and tech including health and education is a basic human right for all, rather than a privilege for a few within and among nations.
In his powerful message, the President said:
*”Four decades later, the importance of people-centred development and fundamental principles of equality, participation, international cooperation, remains both critical and compelling. We commend the remarkable advances in science, technology, health and education.”*
The President decried skewed global development, inequality, unsustainable debt, unfair trade conditions and inadequate development financing that remain prevalent.
He assured the world of Zimbabwe’s unwavering commitment to a development paradigm that leaves no country or people behind, “one that is founded-on equality, solidarity and mutual respect.”
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