# National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence for Sri Lanka

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Sri Lanka
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Government of Sri Lanka (Ministry of Digital Economy)

## In brief

National AI Strategy (2024) is a non-binding national strategy of Sri Lanka, issued by the Government of Sri Lanka (Ministry of Digital Economy). Its current status is adopted. Government programme; no obligations on private organisations. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Summary

The strategy sets priorities on AI skills and research, public-sector and industry adoption, data and compute infrastructure, and responsible-AI governance, with a national AI centre and implementation task force.

## Scope

Government programme; no obligations on private organisations.

## Notes on dates

Adoption date not established from the official source and left empty rather than estimated; the year in the title or summary is the best available indication. Reviewer to add the exact date with a source reference.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0179 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0179; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/sri-lanka-national-ai-strategy-2024
- **Official source**: https://www.digitaleconomy.gov.lk/
- **Source document**: Ministry of Digital Economy
- **Published by**: Government of Sri Lanka
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **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 Strategy on Artificial Intelligence for Sri Lanka" [AIPT-POL-0179, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0179 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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