# National AI Strategy for the Philippines (NAIS-PH)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Philippines
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Proposed
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Department of Science and Technology (DOST)
- **Adopted**: 2025-04-30

## In brief

National AI Strategy for the Philippines is a non-binding national strategy of the Philippines, issued by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). It was proposed on 30 April 2025. Scope is as set out in the official text linked below.

## Summary

A national AI strategy proposed by DOST at National Innovation Day 2025, structured around five core strategies: infrastructure, workforce, innovation, ethics and policy, and deployment, phased from 2024 to 2028. It includes a national high-performance computing centre, AI micro-credentials and an AI hub linking regional industries to solutions, coordinated with DICT, DepEd, CHED, TESDA, DTI and others. DOST later launched NAICRI as its institutional backbone.

## Scope

Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Issued by Department of Science and Technology (DOST). Oversight: DOST with the National AI Center for Research and Innovation (NAICRI) and partner agencies. Stated purpose: Coordinate a whole-of-government AI strategy on infrastructure, workforce, innovation, ethics and deployment through 2028.

## Key dates

2025-04-30: DOST Secretary presents NAIS-PH at National Innovation Day

## 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-0153 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0153; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/philippines-national-ai-strategy-for-the-philippines
- **Official source**: https://www.dost.gov.ph/knowledge-resources/news/86-2025-news/3989-dost-builds-on-ai-national-strategy.html
- **Source document**: National AI Strategy for the Philippines (NAIS-PH)
- **Published by**: Department of Science and Technology, Philippines
- **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 AI Strategy for the Philippines (NAIS-PH)" [AIPT-POL-0153, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0153 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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