Export of Services
With one of the highest literacy rates in Africa, Zimbabwe has a pool of highly educated and trained professionals in various fields. Zimbabwe has excellent telecommunications infrastructure in terms of connectivity, bandwidth, reliability and cost competitiveness and is an ideal Sourcing Platform for value-added services for the English speaking world. Zimbabwe has competitive advantages in:
Information & Communications Technology (ICT)
A wide range of IT and IT Enables services, including voice and non-voice based Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) activities, namely;
- Technical help-desk
- Web designing and hosting
- Software Development and customisation
- Call centres
- Financial Services Outsourcing
- Legal Process Outsourcing
- Medical transcription
- Publishing, Communications and Advertising
Consultancy Services
Zimbabwean experts, with extensive experience in diverse fields (agriculture, environment, engineering design, process design, standards & norms, productivity & innovation, communications and advertising, and mining, among other areas) provide value-added services to the region and the world over.
Training and Education
Zimbabwe has an extensive network of Universities (public & private) Colleges, Schools, Technical, Vocational Education & Training (TVET) Centres that offer quality education at certificate, diploma, higher diploma, degree, post-graduation and research /doctoral levels. Zimbabwe, as a center of excellence in Training & Education fields, can be home to students from the region.