# Qatar

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

## In brief

Qatar has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. Instruments on record: National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Qatar 2019 (2019, strategy, adopted). Developed by the Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence and adopted by the government as the national strategy, the document sets out six pillars: education, data access, employment, business, research, and ethics.

## Overview

Developed by the Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence and adopted by the government as the national strategy, the document sets out six pillars: education, data access, employment, business, research, and ethics.

## Regulatory status

Instruments on record: National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Qatar 2019 (2019, strategy, adopted). Each is linked to its official source; human verification pending.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Qatar 2019.

## 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.

## Official sources

- National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Qatar 2019 — Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Qatar — https://www.mcit.gov.qa/-/media/mcit/documents/strategies/national_artificial_intelligence_strategy_for_qatar_2019_en.pdf

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Qatar 2019** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/qatar-national-artificial-intelligence-strategy-for-qatar-2019
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/qatar-national-artificial-intelligence-strategy-for-qatar-2019.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/qatar
- **Official source**: https://www.mcit.gov.qa/-/media/mcit/documents/strategies/national_artificial_intelligence_strategy_for_qatar_2019_en.pdf
- **Source document**: National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Qatar 2019
- **Published by**: Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Qatar
- **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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