Kenya Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025–2030

Summary

Kenya's national AI strategy for 2025-2030, built on three pillars (digital infrastructure, data, and research and innovation) and four enablers, one of them governance. The governance goal plans a national AI and emerging technologies policy, local ethical and safety standards implemented through conformity assessment, safety audits and technical regulations, a national AI risk and safety institute, regulatory sandboxes and, as AI matures, an AI and Other Emerging Technologies Act. The ethics goal plans a mandatory ethical impact assessment for public-sector AI, accountable procurement guidelines and a complaints and redress mechanism.

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Scope

Borderline scope Mainly a strategy for AI infrastructure, data, research and innovation, skills and investment, with governance and ethics among its enablers; included as Kenya's national AI strategy, which plans AI risk and safety frameworks and a national AI risk and safety institute.

Open question

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Status notes

Dated March 2025; the ministry announced that it would launch the strategy on 27 March 2025 at the Kenyatta International Convention Center. Developed by the National AI Working Group and Steering Committee with support from Germany's Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, the EU-funded Digital Transformation Center Kenya implemented by GIZ, Canada's IDRC and the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For each goal it sets objectives, flagship projects, outcomes and key performance indicators.

Sources

Open the official source https://ict.go.ke/ict-ministry-set-launch-national-artificial-intelligence-strategy-2025-2030

Secondary source: https://api.oecd.ai/storage//policy-initiatives/Apr2026/117ojpi25umobl2fb8-Kenya%20AI%20Strategy%202025%20-%202030.pdf

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History

1. 2026-10-18verification.level: B → A — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-18scope_note: – → Mainly a strategy for AI infrastructure, data, research and innovation, skills a — added: mainly a development strategy with governance and ethics among its enablers, the same case as NO-01, PT-01 and DE-022026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-18notes: Builds on the Data Protection Act; includes a results framework with KPIs to 203 → Dated March 2025; the ministry announced that it would launch the strategy on 27 — rewritten: the launch date and developers from the ministry page; 'builds on the Data Protection Act' dropped, since the strategy only names that Act among Kenya's strengths2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-18safety_topics: ["accountability & liability", "evaluation & testing", "research priorities"] → ["safety institute", "evaluation & testing", "public-sector use", "accountabilit — safety institute added (objective 5.2.3) and public-sector use (mandatory ethical impact assessment and procurement guidelines for the public sector); international cooperation added (objective 5.4.2); research priorities dropped, since the strategy's research pillar is about AI innovation and commercialisation, not safety research2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-18summary: National AI strategy whose governance pillar calls for harmonised AI policy, agi → Kenya's national AI strategy for 2025-2030, built on three pillars (digital infr — rewritten from the strategy's text: the earlier summary was 265 characters and left out the planned national AI risk and safety institute, conformity assessment and safety audits, the AI and Other Emerging Technologies Act, sandboxes and the redress mechanism2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Kenya draft AI and Emerging Technologies Policy (2026) Kenya · Draft / proposed

Citation

Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy (MICDE), Kenya. Kenya Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025–2030. 2025-03. https://ict.go.ke/ict-ministry-set-launch-national-artificial-intelligence-strategy-2025-2030. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/KE-01/2026-10-16/official.html retrieved 2026-10-16 11:39:13 UTC, SHA-256 2130480ddc5cf5e48cc55be2b9bc7518aa12348a74eae3c61b28d7c63f11677d. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record KE-01.

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