# Panama

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Panama
- **ISO code**: PA
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Americas / Central America

## In brief

Panama has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. AI bill under consideration; national AI strategy in development; data-protection law applies. Regulators include Autoridad Nacional para la Innovación Gubernamental (AIG), Autoridad Nacional de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información (ANTAI).

## Overview

Panama's National Authority for Government Innovation (AIG) leads AI policy under the Digital Agenda; a bill to regulate AI (2024) was introduced in the National Assembly, and the Personal Data Protection Law 81 of 2019 applies to AI processing personal data. UNESCO's readiness assessment informed a national AI strategy process in 2024–2025.

## Regulatory status

AI bill under consideration; national AI strategy in development; data-protection law applies.

## What is binding and what is guidance

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

## Regulators

- Autoridad Nacional para la Innovación Gubernamental (AIG) — Government innovation and AI policy lead — https://aig.gob.pa/
- Autoridad Nacional de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información (ANTAI) — Data-protection supervision — https://www.antai.gob.pa/

## 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

- Autoridad Nacional para la Innovación Gubernamental — Government of Panama — https://aig.gob.pa/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial de Panamá** — National strategy, Proposed, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/panama-national-ai-strategy
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/panama-national-ai-strategy.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/panama
- **Official source**: https://aig.gob.pa/
- **Source document**: Autoridad Nacional para la Innovación Gubernamental
- **Published by**: Government of Panama
- **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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