# National AI Strategy - Second Edition 2025-2030

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Egypt
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: National Council for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
- **Adopted**: 2025-01-01

## In brief

National AI Strategy is a non-binding national strategy of Egypt, issued by the National Council for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. It was adopted on 1 January 2025. Scope is as set out in the official text linked below.

## Summary

The second edition updates Egypt's 2021 strategy for 2025-2030 around six pillars: governance, data, infrastructure, technology, talent and ecosystem. It sets targets for AI specialists, startups and ICT's contribution to GDP, and includes plans for national foundational models and expanded regional and international cooperation.

## Scope

Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Issued by National Council for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Oversight: NCAI (chaired by the ICT Minister) oversees implementation across ministries. Stated purpose: Move from AI adoption to large-scale, sovereign AI capability supporting Digital Egypt.

## Key dates

2025-01-01: Second edition published by MCIT (January 2025); 2026-01-01: NCAI mandate expanded to AI, Quantum Computing and Emerging Technologies (January 2026)

## 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-0066 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0066; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/egypt-national-ai-strategy
- **Official source**: https://mcit.gov.eg/en/Publication/Publication_Summary/10550
- **Source document**: National AI Strategy - Second Edition 2025-2030
- **Published by**: Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **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/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "National AI Strategy - Second Edition 2025-2030" [AIPT-POL-0066, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0066 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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