# Mauritius

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Mauritius
- **ISO code**: MU
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Africa / Eastern Africa

## In brief

Mauritius has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI strategy (2018) as policy; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law. Regulators include Ministry of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation, Data Protection Office. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Mauritius published one of Africa's first national AI strategies in 2018 (Mauritius Artificial Intelligence Strategy) and an AI Council; the Data Protection Act 2017 and the Data Protection Office apply to AI processing personal data, and the 2024–2025 digital transformation blueprint updates AI priorities.

## Regulatory status

National AI strategy (2018) as policy; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: Mauritius AI Strategy (2018).

## Regulators

- Ministry of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation — Digital and AI policy lead — https://mitci.govmu.org/
- Data Protection Office — Data-protection authority — https://dataprotection.govmu.org/

## 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

- Mauritius Artificial Intelligence Strategy — Ministry of Technology, Communication and Innovation — https://ncb.govmu.org/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Mauritius Artificial Intelligence Strategy** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/mauritius-artificial-intelligence-strategy-2018
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/mauritius-artificial-intelligence-strategy-2018.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/mauritius
- **Official source**: https://ncb.govmu.org/
- **Source document**: Mauritius Artificial Intelligence Strategy
- **Published by**: Ministry of Technology, Communication and Innovation
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **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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