# Egypt

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Egypt
- **ISO code**: EG
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Africa / Northern Africa

## In brief

Egypt has 2 recorded AI policy instruments, none of them binding. Instruments on record: Egypt National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (2021, strategy, adopted); National AI Strategy (2025, strategy, adopted). Egypt's first national AI strategy framed AI as a tool for the country's sustainable development goals and for positioning Egypt as an active contributor to AI in Africa and the Arab region.

## Overview

Egypt's first national AI strategy framed AI as a tool for the country's sustainable development goals and for positioning Egypt as an active contributor to AI in Africa and the Arab region. The second edition updates Egypt's 2021 strategy for 2025-2030 around six pillars: governance, data, infrastructure, technology, talent and ecosystem.

## Regulatory status

Instruments on record: Egypt National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (2021, strategy, adopted); National AI Strategy (2025, strategy, adopted). Each is linked to its official source; human verification pending.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: Egypt National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, National AI Strategy.

## 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.

## Official sources

- Egypt National Artificial Intelligence Strategy — Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt — https://mcit.gov.eg/en/Publication/Publication_Summary/9283
- National AI Strategy - Second Edition 2025-2030 — Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt — https://mcit.gov.eg/en/Publication/Publication_Summary/10550

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (2)

- **Egypt National Artificial Intelligence Strategy** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/egypt-egypt-national-artificial-intelligence-strategy
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/egypt-egypt-national-artificial-intelligence-strategy.md
- **National AI Strategy - Second Edition 2025-2030** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/egypt-national-ai-strategy
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/egypt-national-ai-strategy.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/ai-regulation-egypt
- **Official source**: https://mcit.gov.eg/en/Publication/Publication_Summary/9283
- **Source document**: Egypt National Artificial Intelligence Strategy
- **Published by**: Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: AI Policy Tracker (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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