TECHNOLOGY and Science Minister Felix Mutati says Zambia must stop celebrating imported technology and instead invest in homegrown innovations, arguing that solutions to the country’s challenges should come from its own people. Speaking during the launch of the Zamtel-ZRA 2026 Innovation Challenge, Thursday, Mutati said the country had sufficient local talent to develop technologies capable of addressing its challenges, but institutions needed to create opportunities for young innovators to demonstrate their abilities. “We refuse as a country to celebrate technology imported from elsewhere, and we tinker with it, and we say this is good. We refuse. We want to acknowledge that the answers to our problems as a nation belong with us, and nobody else,” Mutati said. He said the...