# Oman

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Oman
- **ISO code**: OM
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Asia / Gulf Cooperation Council

## In brief

Oman has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI programme and government AI policy (2024) as policy; data-protection law applies. Regulators include Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT). Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Oman's Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology launched the National Programme for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Digital Technologies (2024) and an AI policy for government entities, within the Digital Economy Programme; the Personal Data Protection Law (Royal Decree 6/2022) applies.

## Regulatory status

National AI programme and government AI policy (2024) as policy; data-protection law applies.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI programme and government AI policy (2024).

## Regulators

- Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT) — AI programme lead — https://www.mtcit.gov.om/

## 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 Transport, Communications and Information Technology — Government of Oman — https://www.mtcit.gov.om/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **National Programme for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Digital Technologies; AI policy for government entities** — Policy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/oman-national-ai-programme-2024
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/oman-national-ai-programme-2024.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/oman
- **Official source**: https://www.mtcit.gov.om/
- **Source document**: Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology
- **Published by**: Government of Oman
- **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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