National Strategy and Roadmap of Senegal on Artificial Intelligence to 2028

Summary

Strategy to 2028 with four objectives, six orientations and 52 actions under a vision of ethical, trustworthy AI as a catalyst of the Plan Sénégal Émergent. Orientation 6, 'AI in full confidence', sets out sixteen governance actions: a national consultation, an audit of regional and international ethical and legal recommendations, categorising AI types by their risks to human rights and societal well-being, a balanced and flexible AI regulation, a prefiguration body and then a regulator for emerging technologies, a national ethics committee, regulatory sandboxes and mandatory impact assessments for designated AI types, with soft law in the interim.

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 French text.

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Scope

Borderline scope Mainly a strategy for AI skills, research, an AI cluster and adoption; included as Senegal's national AI strategy, one of whose six orientations sets out AI governance: risk categorisation, regulation, a regulator and an ethics committee.

Status notes

The published document is a summary version ('version résumée', 20 pages) dated 2023, produced with technical assistance from Expertise France under the AU-EU D4D Hub project. The minister presented the strategy publicly on 14 September 2023 as a first restitution of the work, open to public contributions, and announced that a final version would be submitted to the head of state for political validation. The OECD.AI entry gives 2024 as its start year and lists it as active. Besides orientation 6, the strategy proposes reaffirming in law the principles that multinational platforms must respect, drawing on the EU's Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act and AI Act, and plans to train about 90,000 people in data science and AI by 2028.

Sources

Open the official source https://oecd.ai/en/dashboards/policy-initiatives/senegal-national-artificial-intelligence-strategy-and-road-map

Secondary source: https://api.oecd.ai/storage//policy-initiatives/Apr2026/117ojp2dncmoa5k0j2-Synth%C3%A8se%20de%20la%20strat%C3%A9gie%20IA%20du%20S%C3%A9n%C3%A9gal.pdf

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History

1. 2026-10-18related: [{"id": "UNESCO-01", "slug": "unesco-recommendation-ethics-ai"}] → [{"id": "UNESCO-01", "slug": "unesco-recommendation-ethics-ai"}, {"id": "AU-01", — two-way link added: AU-01 link(s) to SN-012026-10-18-fix-related-links · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-18english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — set to 'none found': the official text is in French and no English version of the strategy was found; the OECD.AI entry is a description, not a translation2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-18scope_note: – → Mainly a strategy for AI skills, research, an AI cluster and adoption; included — added: one orientation of six covers AI governance; the strategy's main content is skills, research and adoption, in line with the scope notes of comparable national strategies (CA-07, CO-01, NO-01)2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-18notes: The document is dated 2023 and was presented publicly by the minister on 14 Sept → The published document is a summary version ('version résumée', 20 pages) dated — rewritten from stored sources: the summary version and its production by Expertise France (cover); the 14 September 2023 presentation as a first restitution and the announced submission for political validation (APS dispatch via OSIRIS, stored this run); the OECD.AI start year and status; platforms and EU acts; the 90,000 training target. The New Deal Technologique, the Hiroshima AI Process presentation and the statement that no AI law or regulator exists rest on no stored source and were dropped2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-18summary: Strategy to 2028 with four objectives, six orientations and 52 actions under a v → Strategy to 2028 with four objectives, six orientations and 52 actions under a v — tightened against the summary PDF: orientation 6 actions listed as the PDF lists them (6.1-6.4, 6.6-6.8, 6.11, 6.14, and the interim soft normative framework); the EU DSA, DMA and AI Act are cited for a law on platforms' duties, not for the AI regulation of Action 6.4, so that reference moved to notes; national ethics committee, sandboxes and impact assessments added; the training target moved to notes2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

UNESCO AI Ethics Recommendation UNESCO · Published (non-binding, current)

AU Continental AI Strategy African Union · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

Ministère de la Communication, des Télécommunications et de l'Économie numérique (MCTEN). National Strategy and Roadmap of Senegal on Artificial Intelligence to 2028. 2023. https://oecd.ai/en/dashboards/policy-initiatives/senegal-national-artificial-intelligence-strategy-and-road-map. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level B). Local copy archive/SN-01/2026-10-18/official.html retrieved 2026-10-18 03:28:17 UTC, SHA-256 384a0d87be774a983ea24e657f3a75a6876a9377975dbf03d1896079c312d631. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record SN-01.

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