# Botswana

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Botswana
- **ISO code**: BW
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Africa / Southern Africa

## In brief

Botswana has no AI policy instrument recorded here yet. Botswana's Ministry of Communications has consulted on a national AI strategy; adoption not confirmed. Regulators include Government of Botswana. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Botswana's Ministry of Communications has consulted on a national AI strategy; adoption not confirmed. General law (data protection where enacted, consumer, telecommunications and sector rules) applies to AI systems. This record exists so that coverage is complete and honest: it will be expanded when an official AI instrument is published or a reviewer adds one with its source.

## Regulatory status

Botswana's Ministry of Communications has consulted on a national AI strategy; adoption not confirmed. General law (data protection where enacted, consumer, telecommunications and sector rules) applies to AI systems.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: no AI-specific instrument recorded. Strategy or guidance: none recorded.

## Regulators

- Government of Botswana — Official government portal; AI policy lead not yet identified — https://www.gov.bw/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.
- Treat the absence of an AI-specific instrument as a gap in our records, not as legal certainty; check the government portal and regulator sites linked here.

## Official sources

- Government of Botswana — Government of Botswana — https://www.gov.bw/
- Data Protection and Privacy Legislation Worldwide (country table) — UNCTAD — https://unctad.org/page/data-protection-and-privacy-legislation-worldwide

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/botswana
- **Official source**: https://www.gov.bw/
- **Source document**: Government of Botswana
- **Published by**: Government of Botswana
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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