# Sri Lanka

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Sri Lanka
- **ISO code**: LK
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Asia / South Asia

## In brief

Sri Lanka has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI strategy (2024) as policy; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law. Regulators include Ministry of Digital Economy, Data Protection Authority of Sri Lanka. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Sri Lanka published a National AI Strategy in 2024 through the Ministry of Digital Economy (formerly Technology) with a task force and a proposed national AI centre, following UNESCO's readiness assessment; the Personal Data Protection Act No. 9 of 2022 and its Data Protection Authority apply to AI processing personal data.

## Regulatory status

National AI strategy (2024) as policy; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI Strategy (2024).

## Regulators

- Ministry of Digital Economy — AI strategy lead — https://www.digitaleconomy.gov.lk/
- Data Protection Authority of Sri Lanka — Data-protection authority — https://www.dpa.gov.lk/

## 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 Digital Economy — Government of Sri Lanka — https://www.digitaleconomy.gov.lk/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence for Sri Lanka** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/sri-lanka-national-ai-strategy-2024
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/sri-lanka-national-ai-strategy-2024.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/ai-regulation-sri-lanka
- **Official source**: https://www.digitaleconomy.gov.lk/
- **Source document**: Ministry of Digital Economy
- **Published by**: Government of Sri Lanka
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: AI Policy Tracker (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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