# Tunisia

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Tunisia
- **ISO code**: TN
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Africa / Northern Africa

## In brief

Tunisia has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI strategy (2025) as policy; data-protection law applies; no AI-specific law. Regulators include Ministère des Technologies de la Communication, Instance Nationale de Protection des Données Personnelles (INPDP). Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Tunisia's Ministry of Communication Technologies launched a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy in 2025 after a 2018 task-force roadmap, with priorities on talent, public services, start-ups and ethics; the personal-data authority INPDP applies the 2004 data-protection law to AI.

## Regulatory status

National AI strategy (2025) 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 (2025).

## Regulators

- Ministère des Technologies de la Communication — AI strategy lead — https://www.mtc.gov.tn/
- Instance Nationale de Protection des Données Personnelles (INPDP) — Data-protection authority — https://www.inpdp.tn/

## 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

- Ministère des Technologies de la Communication — Government of Tunisia — https://www.mtc.gov.tn/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Stratégie nationale de l'intelligence artificielle de la Tunisie** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/tunisia-national-ai-strategy-2025
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/tunisia-national-ai-strategy-2025.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/tunisia
- **Official source**: https://www.mtc.gov.tn/
- **Source document**: Ministère des Technologies de la Communication
- **Published by**: Government of Tunisia
- **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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