Artificial Intelligence Strategy of the Republic of Azerbaijan for 2025–2028 (approved by Presidential Order No. 530)

Summary

National AI strategy for 2025–2028, approved by presidential order on 19 March 2025. Its first priority direction is AI governance: identifying national priority sectors and responsible state bodies, a normative legal framework for responsible and ethical AI, rules to identify and prevent personal-data risks in AI systems, and AI standards. Its goals include legal norms and ethical rules for AI, responsible use that protects citizens' rights and data privacy, preventing data bias and use against the interests of the state, society and citizens, reducing the risks of innovative solutions, and protecting national and information security against manipulation and disinformation.

Language

No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Azerbaijani text.

Safety topics

Scope

Borderline scope Mainly a strategy for AI industry, skills, data and computing infrastructure and public-sector use; included because its first priority direction is AI governance, with a legal framework for responsible and ethical AI and rules on personal-data risks.

Status notes

The order makes the Cabinet of Ministers coordinate and supervise the strategy's measures and report to the President once a year, tasks the State Service for Special Communications and Information Security with analysing information-security risks where state bodies use AI, and has the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication monitor and evaluate implementation on the Cabinet's commission. The action plan (section 8) gives the Cabinet, with the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport and other bodies, 2025–2027 to create a normative legal framework for responsible and ethical AI (measure 8.1.3) and to approve rules on identifying and preventing personal-data risks in AI systems (8.1.4), and 2025–2026 to identify national priority sectors for AI and the responsible state bodies (8.1.1). By Order No. 253s of 28 April 2025 the Cabinet asked the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport to submit proposals on measure 8.1.1 by 1 July 2026 and on measures 8.1.3 and 8.1.4 by 1 July 2027, had the Center build a module for monitoring and reporting on the strategy, and set up a working group led by the head of the Cabinet's Office. By Decision No. 226 of 21 July 2026 the Cabinet approved the list of national priority sectors for AI development and the responsible state bodies. A presidential decree of 27 February 2026 created a Digital Development Council, chaired by the First Vice-President, to oversee state programmes and coordinate policy in digitalisation, e-government, AI and innovation and to take measures to improve the legislation.

Sources

Open the official source https://president.az/az/articles/view/68364

Secondary source: https://static.president.az/upload/Files/2025/03/19/5a0fb1886a7316cb1b95458f366c1bd6_3415396.pdf

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-17english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — no English translation of the order or the strategy was found2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-17scope_note: – → Mainly a strategy for AI industry, skills, data and computing infrastructure and — added: mainly a development strategy whose first priority direction is AI governance2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-17notes: The Cabinet of Ministers coordinates and supervises the measures, reports to the → The order makes the Cabinet of Ministers coordinate and supervise the strategy's — rewritten from the stored order and action plan, then extended from the Cabinet documents and the February 2026 decree stored in this run (Order No. 253s, Decision No. 226, Digital Development Council); the remark on regional grouping removed (it describes the register, not the instrument)2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-17safety_topics: ["accountability & liability", "public-sector use", "research priorities", "inte → ["accountability & liability", "public-sector use", "national security & militar — 'national security & military' added for goal 5.1.13 (national and information security, manipulation and disinformation) and clause 3 of the order2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-17summary: Azerbaijan's first national AI strategy, approved by presidential order on 19 Ma → National AI strategy for 2025–2028, approved by presidential order on 19 March 2 — rewritten from the strategy text: version 1 called the analysis items on page 9 (legislation, data-privacy and cybersecurity laws, public awareness of risks) 'goals'; the goals in section 5 with safety content (5.1.7, 5.1.10-5.1.13) are now named; 'first national AI strategy' dropped (not in the text); the order's information-security clause moved to the notes2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Order of 19 March 2025); implementation coordinated by the Cabinet of Ministers. Artificial Intelligence Strategy of the Republic of Azerbaijan for 2025–2028 (approved by Presidential Order No. 530) [Presidential Order (Sərəncam) No. 530 of 19 March 2025]. 2025-03-19. https://president.az/az/articles/view/68364. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/AZ-01/2026-10-17/official.html retrieved 2026-10-17 20:48:00 UTC, SHA-256 2f11f6229acd5fdeb800260629698209a6890ca2f731a7084269c1d965ef8b81. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record AZ-01.

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