Corelink / Advisory / Policy & Legislation

We help write the policy that shapes digital nations.

Beyond delivering software, Corelink works alongside ministries, regulators and legislatures on the upstream questions: eGovernment policy, national digital strategy, and the legal frameworks that make implementation possible.

/ In the record

Contributors to Zambia's new eGovernment Act.

Corelink was among the firms formally invited to contribute to the development of Zambia's new eGovernment Act. Our team reviewed the draft, submitted technical and operational input, and engaged in the consultation rounds that shaped the final instrument.

That work draws on a decade of building and operating government systems — the kind of practical perspective that turns intent into enforceable, implementable law.

2026
/ Contribution scope
  • Drafting input on platform-level provisions
  • Review of digital identity & interoperability sections
  • Operational feedback from live government deployments
  • Cross-references with sector laws (data protection, archives, electronic communications)
  • Participation in stakeholder consultation rounds
/ Practice areas

Where we
show up.

Each engagement is led by a senior partner with sector experience and supported by Corelink technologists who have actually run the systems the policy will govern.

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eGovernment Policy Development

Strategy, policy and operating frameworks for digital public services. From cabinet-level vision documents to technical standards.

  • Digital government strategy & vision
  • Service delivery standards & SLAs
  • Interoperability frameworks
  • Data protection & sharing policy
  • eIDAS-equivalent identity policy
  • Cybersecurity governance
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National Digital Strategies

Multi-year national strategies for digital transformation. Costed, sequenced, measurable.

  • National digital transformation roadmaps
  • Sectoral strategies (health, education, agriculture)
  • Investment cases & donor alignment
  • KPI frameworks & M&E
  • Institutional design recommendations
  • Capability building plans
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Law Review & Amendment

Working with legislative drafters, sponsoring ministries and parliamentary committees to refine and modernize ICT-adjacent law.

  • Gap analysis against international best practice
  • Drafting input on technical provisions
  • Cross-reference reviews across sector law
  • Stakeholder consultation facilitation
  • Regulatory impact assessments
  • Subordinate legislation & regulations
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Sectoral Expert Panels

Multi-disciplinary teams on call: legal counsel, sector economists, technologists, former regulators and former senior public servants.

  • Legal counsel with ICT & data law specialism
  • Former regulators in financial services, telecoms, utilities
  • Education & health sector specialists
  • Defence & security cleared partners
  • Economists for impact assessment
  • Engagement managers for ministerial liaison
/ Why a software firm?

Policy that actually ships.

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Built it before

Most of our partners have personally built the kind of systems the policy is meant to govern. We know what enforceable looks like.

02

Local + global

Lusaka-based with international defense, education and government clients. Our drafting reflects African operating realities, not imported templates.

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Engineering rigour

Every recommendation is testable. We don't write aspirational policy — we write policy that can be measured against in 18 months.

Drafting a policy or amending an act?

If you're a ministry, parliamentary committee, regulator or donor working on policy in this space — we'd like to be useful. Initial conversations are off-the-record.

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