# Namibia

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

## In brief

Namibia has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI policy in development; data-protection bill pending. Regulators include Ministry of Information and Communication Technology. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Namibia's Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has been developing a national AI policy under the Fourth Industrial Revolution task-force recommendations (2022), and a Data Protection Bill is before Parliament; no AI-specific law exists.

## Regulatory status

National AI policy in development; data-protection bill pending.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI policy (in development).

## Regulators

- Ministry of Information and Communication Technology — AI policy lead — https://mict.gov.na/

## 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

- Ministry of Information and Communication Technology — Government of Namibia — https://mict.gov.na/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Namibia National Artificial Intelligence Policy** — Policy, Proposed, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/namibia-national-ai-policy
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/namibia-national-ai-policy.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/namibia
- **Official source**: https://mict.gov.na/
- **Source document**: Ministry of Information and Communication Technology
- **Published by**: Government of Namibia
- **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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