# Uganda

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

## In brief

Uganda 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 ICT and National Guidance, Personal Data Protection Office. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Uganda's Ministry of ICT and National Guidance has been developing a National AI Strategy (2024–2025) and AI guidelines within the Digital Transformation Roadmap; the Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019 and the Personal Data Protection Office apply to AI processing personal data.

## 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 ICT and National Guidance — AI strategy lead — https://ict.go.ug/
- Personal Data Protection Office — Data-protection authority — https://www.pdpo.go.ug/

## 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 ICT and National Guidance — Government of Uganda — https://ict.go.ug/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

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

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/uganda
- **Official source**: https://ict.go.ug/
- **Source document**: Ministry of ICT and National Guidance
- **Published by**: Government of Uganda
- **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/

> This record is a structured summary with a link to the official text. It is not legal advice. Open the official source before relying on any date or duty. How current each record type must be is published at https://aipolicytracker.org/verification; what a record must carry at all is published at https://aipolicytracker.org/coverage.