# Côte d'Ivoire

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Côte d'Ivoire
- **ISO code**: CI
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Africa / Western Africa

## In brief

Côte d'Ivoire has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI strategy (2025) as policy; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law. Regulators include Ministère de la Transition Numérique et de la Digitalisation, Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications/TIC de Côte d'Ivoire (ARTCI).

## Overview

Côte d'Ivoire adopted a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy and a data-governance strategy in 2025 through the Ministry of Digital Transition and Digitalisation, with priorities on public services, agriculture, health, talent and ethics; Law 2013-450 on personal data and ARTCI apply.

## Regulatory status

National AI strategy (2025) as policy; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI Strategy (2025).

## Regulators

- Ministère de la Transition Numérique et de la Digitalisation — AI strategy lead — https://numerique.gouv.ci/
- Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications/TIC de Côte d'Ivoire (ARTCI) — Telecoms and data-protection regulator — https://www.artci.ci/

## 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.
- Use the African Union Continental AI Strategy (2024) as the regional reference where a national instrument is missing.

## Official sources

- Ministère de la Transition Numérique et de la Digitalisation — Government of Côte d'Ivoire — https://numerique.gouv.ci/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Stratégie nationale de l'intelligence artificielle de la Côte d'Ivoire** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/cote-d-ivoire-national-ai-strategy-2025
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/cote-d-ivoire-national-ai-strategy-2025.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/cote-d-ivoire
- **Official source**: https://numerique.gouv.ci/
- **Source document**: Ministère de la Transition Numérique et de la Digitalisation
- **Published by**: Government of Côte d'Ivoire
- **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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