# Tanzania

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Tanzania
- **ISO code**: TZ
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Africa / Eastern Africa

## In brief

Tanzania has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI strategy in development; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law. Regulators include Ministry of Information, Communication and Information Technology, Personal Data Protection Commission. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Tanzania's Ministry of Information, Communication and Information Technology has been preparing a National AI Strategy and issued AI guidelines for the public sector (2024–2025); the Personal Data Protection Act 2022 and the Personal Data Protection Commission apply.

## Regulatory status

National AI strategy in development; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law.

## What is binding and what is guidance

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

## Regulators

- Ministry of Information, Communication and Information Technology — AI strategy lead — https://www.mictit.go.tz/
- Personal Data Protection Commission — Data-protection authority — https://www.pdpc.go.tz/

## 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, Communication and Information Technology — Government of Tanzania — https://www.mictit.go.tz/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Tanzania National Artificial Intelligence Strategy** — National strategy, Proposed, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/tanzania-national-ai-strategy
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/tanzania-national-ai-strategy.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/tanzania
- **Official source**: https://www.mictit.go.tz/
- **Source document**: Ministry of Information, Communication and Information Technology
- **Published by**: Government of Tanzania
- **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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