Mutati said Zambia was obliged to adopt strategies that would protect cyberspace users including children and ensure that safe access to online resources is promoted.

Communication experts have warned that Zambia lacks the skills, equipment and organization to fight cybercrime.

Mutati said, however, that the country has set a framework for implementing security in the information age and that the new draft electronic communications and transaction bill proposes to criminalize cyber-security activities that were not covered before.

"My government has taken measures to protect cyberspace users including children in line with the endorsement of a cyber-security agenda," Mutati said.

Child and human trafficking, Mutati said, is thriving partly because of access and attraction arising from access to harmful information resources over the Internet.