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Egypt National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, Second Edition (2025-2030)

Record EG-04

Issued by
National Council for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI)
Jurisdiction
Egypt
Level · region
National · Middle East & North Africa
Published / adopted
2025-01
Language
Arabic, English

Summary

Second edition of Egypt's national AI strategy for 2025-2030, issued by the National Council for AI and built on six pillars: governance, technology, data, ICT and AI infrastructure, ecosystem and talents. The governance pillar serves the objective 'Ensure Ethical and Responsible AI Use'. Its 'Egypt National AI Regulatory System' initiative plans a Center for Responsible AI, guidelines and standards for classifying AI system risks, detailed guidelines for the Egyptian Charter for Responsible AI, regulations for AI testing and deployment, an AI assurance framework, and an AI law with bylaws and a regulatory body to protect citizens against high-risk or prohibited AI.

Safety topics

evaluation & testingrisk-based classificationinternational cooperationaccountability & liability

Scope

Borderline scope Mainly an AI adoption and economic development strategy; included for its governance pillar, which commits to an AI regulatory system, an AI law and rules for safe AI testing and deployment.

Status notes

The strategy opens with a statement by the President of the Republic launching the second edition, which builds on the first National AI Strategy launched in May 2021. A second governance initiative covers global and regional AI dialogues, including unified Arab AI standards. Most of the strategy concerns economic and capacity goals for 2030 across 21 initiatives, such as an ICT contribution of 7.7% to GDP, 30,000 AI professionals and more than 250 successful AI companies.

Sources

Open the official source https://ai.gov.eg/SynchedFiles/en/Resources/AIstrategy%20English%2016-1-2025-1.pdf

Secondary source: https://mcit.gov.eg/en/Artificial_Intelligence

Local copy

Archived. The secondary source could not be downloaded (robots.txt returned HTTP 500, which RFC 9309 treats as 'do not crawl'). Last attempt 2026-10-18 04:07:23 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/EG-04/2026-10-11/official.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-11 19:47:21 UTC
SHA-256 4e5739e811831c8da71e9a649f9709302939833e03fbbd026123455a441e2060

Verification

A
The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · official-url-fetched
Recheck of 18 Oct 2026. Stored: the strategy PDF (52 pages) from ai.gov.eg, stored 11 Oct 2026 and unchanged when rechecked on 18 Oct 2026. It confirms the title, edition and period, the NCAI as issuer, the President's launch statement, the six pillars and the governance initiatives. It gives no day or month of release: the published month, January 2025, rests on the PDF's file name ('16-1-2025'), the server's last-modified date of 16 January 2025, MCIT's publication page (not stored: mcit.gov.eg's robots.txt answers HTTP 500, which the archiver treats as a refusal) and trackers (Digital Policy Alert gives 22 January 2025). The stored strategy names MCIT only for the first edition, so issuing_body now names the NCAI alone.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 5 field(s) supported.

History

  1. 2026-10-18scope_note: – → Mainly an AI adoption and economic development strategy; included for its govern — added: mainly an adoption and economic strategy with a governance pillar; the general rule on strategies whose main content is not safety2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-18notes: The PDF file name on ai.gov.eg carries the date 16 January 2025 and press report → The strategy opens with a statement by the President of the Republic launching t — rewritten: the President's launch statement, the dialogues initiative and the economic goals as the strategy states them (250+ AI companies, 30,000 AI professionals); the scope remark moved to scope_note; the file-name date moved to verification.note2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  3. 2026-10-18safety_topics: ["evaluation & testing", "international cooperation", "accountability & liabilit → ["evaluation & testing", "risk-based classification", "international cooperation — risk-based classification added (guidelines and standards for classifying AI system risks; protection against high-risk or prohibited AI)2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  4. 2026-10-18summary: Second edition of Egypt's national AI strategy, built on six pillars (governance → Second edition of Egypt's national AI strategy for 2025-2030, issued by the Nati — rewritten from the strategy: the governance pillar's actions as the strategy names them (Center for Responsible AI, risk-classification guidelines and standards, charter guidelines, testing and deployment regulations, assurance framework, AI law); the claim that the 2026 framework implements the pillar dropped from the summary (it is in EG-02, not in this text)2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  5. 2026-10-18issuing_body: National Council for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI); Ministry of Communications → National Council for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) — the stored second edition names the NCAI as the body that prepares and approves the strategy; MCIT appears only in the account of the first edition2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Egyptian Charter for Responsible AI Egypt · Published (non-binding, current)

Egypt National AI Governance Framework (2026) Egypt · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

National Council for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI). Egypt National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, Second Edition (2025-2030). 2025-01. https://ai.gov.eg/SynchedFiles/en/Resources/AIstrategy%20English%2016-1-2025-1.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/EG-04/2026-10-11/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-11 19:47:21 UTC, SHA-256 4e5739e811831c8da71e9a649f9709302939833e03fbbd026123455a441e2060. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record EG-04.

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