# Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025 (NAIS 2025)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Bhutan
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: GovTech Agency, Royal Government of Bhutan
- **Adopted**: 2025-10-01

## In brief

Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025 is a non-binding national strategy of Bhutan, issued by GovTech Agency, Royal Government of Bhutan. It was adopted on 1 October 2025. Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. A national strategy framed around the vision of AI rooted in Gross National Happiness.

## Summary

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.

## Scope

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.

## Key dates

2025-10-01: NAIS 2025 published in GovTech Agency's official publications list

## Notes on dates

Only the announcement or adoption date is recorded from the source; in-force and application dates are to be confirmed by a reviewer.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0029 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0029; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/bhutan-bhutan-national-ai-strategy-2025
- **Official source**: https://tech.gov.bt/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/National-AI-Strategy-2025.pdf
- **Source document**: Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025 (NAIS 2025)
- **Published by**: GovTech Agency, Royal Government of Bhutan
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-31
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025 (NAIS 2025)" [AIPT-POL-0029, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0029 (accessed 31 October 2026).

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