Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025: requirements, deadlines and compliance actions
Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025 (NAIS 2025)
What is Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025?
A national strategy framed around the vision of AI rooted in Gross National Happiness. It identifies eight focus areas (agriculture and livestock, tourism, green energy, education, health, public service delivery, natural resources and biodiversity, and culture and language) and seven enablers such as infrastructure, governance and regulation, cybersecurity, skills, research, collaboration and funding. It aims to raise Bhutan's AI maturity by the end of the 13th Five Year Plan and includes monitoring, evaluation and risk-mitigation provisions.
Status note: Month-level date: PDF metadata shows creation on 10 October 2025 and it was uploaded to tech.gov.bt in October 2025. Formal approval by the GovTech Commission/Cabinet could not be confirmed from an official source; as of July 2025 it was reported as a draft pending submission.
Who does it apply to?
Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Issued by GovTech Agency, Royal Government of Bhutan. Oversight: GovTech Agency with annual action-plan reviews and a five-year strategy review. Stated purpose: Apply AI to national development in line with Gross National Happiness values.
When do the requirements apply?
2025-10-01: NAIS 2025 published in GovTech Agency's official publications list
Only the announcement or adoption date is recorded from the source; in-force and application dates are to be confirmed by a reviewer.
Official sources
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Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025 (NAIS 2025)
GovTech Agency, Royal Government of Bhutan · 1 Oct 2025 · Tier 1 source
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NAIS 2025 published in GovTech Agency's official publications list
GovTech Agency, Royal Government of Bhutan · 1 Oct 2025 · Tier 1 source
Change history
Record version 1: Imported from the source-backed legacy dataset (database/data/ai_policies.json); fields limited to what the official source page states. Reviewer to enrich scope, dates and obligations.. Full edit history is in the GitHub repository.
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