# Jamaica

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Jamaica
- **ISO code**: JM
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Americas / Caribbean

## In brief

Jamaica has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI policy framework (2024) as policy; data-protection law applies. Regulators include Ministry of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Office of the Information Commissioner. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Jamaica's National AI Task Force delivered a national AI policy framework in 2024 covering governance, ethics, skills and public-sector use, and the government committed to a national AI policy under the Ministry of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport; the Data Protection Act 2020 (in force December 2023) applies to AI processing personal data.

## Regulatory status

National AI policy framework (2024) as policy; data-protection law applies.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI policy framework (2024).

## Regulators

- Ministry of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport — AI policy lead — https://www.mset.gov.jm/
- Office of the Information Commissioner — Data-protection authority — https://oic.gov.jm/

## 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.

## Official sources

- Ministry of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport — Government of Jamaica — https://www.mset.gov.jm/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **National Artificial Intelligence Policy Framework (AI Task Force report)** — Policy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/jamaica-national-ai-policy-framework-2024
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/jamaica-national-ai-policy-framework-2024.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/jamaica
- **Official source**: https://www.mset.gov.jm/
- **Source document**: Ministry of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport
- **Published by**: Government of Jamaica
- **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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