# National Artificial Intelligence Roadmap 2021-2025 (AI-Rmap)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Malaysia
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI)
- **Adopted**: 2021-12-01

## In brief

National Artificial Intelligence Roadmap 2021-2025 is a non-binding national strategy of Malaysia, issued by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI). It was adopted on 1 December 2021. Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Malaysia's five-year AI roadmap developed by MOSTI through a quadruple-helix consultation.

## Summary

Malaysia's five-year AI roadmap developed by MOSTI through a quadruple-helix consultation. It sets strategic thrusts on governance, R&D, infrastructure, talent and adoption, and identifies national use cases in five priority sectors: agriculture and forestry, healthcare, smart cities and transport, education and public services. It is guided by responsible AI principles including fairness, transparency, accountability and privacy.

## Scope

Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Issued by Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI). Oversight: MOSTI with Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation. Stated purpose: Build a national AI innovation ecosystem to raise productivity and competitiveness.

## Key dates

2021-12-01: AI-Rmap 2021-2025 adopted by MOSTI; 2024-09-01: National Guidelines on AI Governance and Ethics issued under the roadmap

## 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-0129 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0129; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/malaysia-national-artificial-intelligence-roadmap-2021-2025
- **Official source**: https://www.mosti.gov.my/en/berita/malaysias-national-artificial-intelligence-ai-roadmap-2021-2025/
- **Source document**: National Artificial Intelligence Roadmap 2021-2025 (AI-Rmap)
- **Published by**: Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **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 Artificial Intelligence Roadmap 2021-2025 (AI-Rmap)" [AIPT-POL-0129, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0129 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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